Issue is my phone is old (Iphone 7) and Google Authenticator (which is linked to the electrum wallet for 2FA purposes) has stopped working.
If you're advance user, you could try extract GA's data from your old iPhone and use SQLite reader to get 16-character secret character for 2FA. I did similar things with old rooted android phone in past.
Some basic security reminder,
1. If you plan to use different device to access your Bitcoin, make sure it's secure.
2. Make sure you download real Electrum from it's official website.
Thanks, man!
I'm pretty sure I have the right seed, as I even wrote the version number in my notes, but do you think I can try once to see if it's the right seed and if that fails then try to extract the 16-character GA data? Or trying to recover the wallet from the seed would mess things up?
Yeah, I intend to run Electrum from my Debian 12 daily driver, which I believe is pretty secure.
I wish I could just use apt to get it on Linux, but apparently it's an appimage. I'll make sure it's the right URL (
https://electrum.org/), spend the UTXOs into an exchange address and then convert into fiat immediately.
My main stash is on Bitcoin Core and offline copied across several USB thumbdrives. In hindsight, I wish I had never used Electrum. Don't even remember why I didn't consolidate everything into Bitcoin Core because it was so long ago, but I wish I had.