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Question about Sparrow Wallet:

I've used Electrum for years and imported that wallet over to Sparrow. I wanted to use the Jade hardware wallet as my means of logging in but it forced me to create a new seed as Electrums wasn't recognized. Now I'm getting this warning, and I am not sure what it means, nor do I feel like losing access to my initial seed phrase. #asknostr

The descriptor was initially wpkh(Electrum), now its Jade. What does it mean that the wallet has existing transactions? Would the old seed still be a means of accessing the wallet in addition to the new seed?

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paulo 2y ago

That’s a strange warning, makes it sound like old addresses will not be accessible. But I don’t know, never seen that before.

Bitcoin Signal 2y ago

I don't understand what you mean by saying you want to use Jade to log in. I have never used Jade but if it is like ColdCard then the seed is already on the Jade and if you tell Sparrow to use a device on an existing wallet. Then it will probably override the addresses like the warning says.

You probably need to keep your Electrum import which is only a software wallet and create a new Sparrow wallet using the Jade as a signing device.

If you want the money to be secured by a hardware wallet then you'll have to create a wallet managed by one or more hardware devices and then send the old Electrum UTXOs to the new wallet addresses.

Bass 2y ago

Thank you