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#asknostr

Imagine you have a hardware wallet with no passphrase, and it holds existing funds. Then you add a passphrase. Is the following correct?

1. The passphrase wallet will be new and empty

2. The original wallet still exists with all funds, and can be accessed by leaving the passphrase field blank (in Sparrow, or whatever watching wallet) when opening the wallet.

3. You can create a passphrase in your watching wallet without needing to reconnect the HWW, assuming you have previously imported the xpub.

Thanks in advance 🙏
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Ruminant Llama 1y ago

I'm pretty sure every passphrase acts as an additional seed word. Therefore completely different derived key.

So nr1: a new empty account is accessed

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Ruminant Llama 1y ago

Obviously without entering the passphrase you still can access the funds, if that wasn't clear already 😉

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boston wine 1y ago

Thanks! So basically hit “enter” in my desktop wallet software to see the original wallet + old funds?