All these actions remind us of the rule that "the best is always the enemy of the good."
Sometimes users resort to such paranoid settings that they regularly change passwords, phrases, and syllables, which causes great confusion. Since this topic is in the section for beginners, I can advise for those starting their journey here: do not be too inventive; simplicity is sometimes the best solution. Create a seed phrase, write it down in a place where prying eyes cannot see, and that's it; no more witchcraft is needed. Buying a hardware wallet is also a wise decision.
Absolutely agree.
Many of your tried derivation paths aren't common at all and you don't seem to understand the difference between hardened and non-hardened paths. I would suggest to learn a bit about HD wallets and derivation paths here:
https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/hd-wallets/Thanks, will do.
You were once able to restore your funded wallet properly. Why haven't you documented all the steps of restauration, if you're not too familiar with all the technicalities? I've also no idea why you constantly de-install Electrum and delete your wallet file without keeping backups of your wallet file (it should be secured by a strong wallet encryption passphrase anyway). Any good reasons for this?
My idea was to make a wallet, that noone can access even knowing all my passwords and having a physical access to all my belongings. And yes, I was not too familiar with all the technicalities. I was travelling to Cambodia, and Vietnam and wasn't aware these were pretty safe countries.
yes, I'm using same version, tried on pc and mac.
But I'd say, why proceed with a failed BIP39 checksum? Messing with this and a non-default changed derivation path AND not documented, is fool's territory.
I agree, why would I do it. I think I wanted smth that I can restore if electrum is unavailable, but I was too paranoid to use smth like bitaddress or Coleman's page. That's why I used electrum for a seed generation, and tried if it works, if I switch to BIP39. When it worked and I tested everything with a small amount of money, I
usedproceeded to use this method. I just remember I saw the dialog with derivation path, not 100% sure I used it.
And I remember I was reading some article online and changing letters h in derivation path to '. Prolly could change smth else too. But I'm almost sure after all the operations I deleted the wallet file, deleted electrum. Then restored everything and exhaled. Then deleted again.
An additional question that popped up for me: have you re-used your receive address, i.e. do you see your smaller transfer AND your later larger transfer in just one address?
Great question. No. I used "receive" tab, it gave me the address. I didn't even have addresses tab turned on in my view. I was new to Electrum. The second time I was using "receive" tab it gave me another address and I remember I was googling, if it was normal for Electrum to have different recieveing addresses.