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# Restoring Wasabi Wallet to Electrum

Bad for your privacy!

If you do this, you send all your Wasabi addresses to 3rd party Electrum servers, losing the anonymity against those entities, so you must make a judgement call by being aware of this.

To gain some privacy by using Electrum you should setup Tor on Network preferences or by installing your own Electrum server via Electrum Personal Server, ElectrumX or Electrs.

Follow one of these two tutorials to get this done:

# Restoring Wasabi Wallet via Electrum GUI

  1. Launch Electrum

If you don't have a wallet created on Electrum it should automatically display an Install Wizard. If it opens your default wallet then go to File -> New/Restore.

  1. Name your new Electrum wallet

  2. Choose Standard wallet

  3. Choose I already have a seed or Use a master key

  4. Type your seed or paste your master private key

You are at risk!

By typing the seed or pasting the master private key on a hot or compromised device, you risk losing your funds.

TIP

Steps to find your master private key inside Wasabi:

  • Go to Advanced tab -> Wallet Info.
  • Copy your Extended Account zprv

The following steps are only necessary if you have previously chosen the option I already have a seed.

  1. Click the Options button, then check BIP39 seed and if you created your Wasabi wallet with a password make sure to check Extend this seed with custom words and type your password in the Seed extension window

  2. On Script type and Derivation path window, choose native segwit (p2wpkh) or manually insert m/84'/0'/0'

If your balance is not correct maybe it is necessary to change the gap_limit or the gap_limit_for_change to 100 or even more if needed.

  1. Open Electrum's Console and type the following commands:
wallet.change_gap_limit(100)
wallet.gap_limit_for_change = 100
wallet.synchronize()

# Restoring Wasabi Wallet manually by creating a new wallet file

  1. Create a new empty text file

This will be your Electrum wallet file.

  1. Paste the following code:
{
    "keystore": {
        "type": "bip32",
        "xprv": "vprv9DMUxX4ShgxMLku9TWoPTTt3ZKYhAHCuhULnR9Qmkv1naNQ4g1HfdURhfq65aJKk7zsmnoXbVryeLwtkj9LhuQoKFD5Fyus9kkiwA1S2pEU",
        "xpub": "vpub5ZPNxAuehdRrMpX7vQSQzAshpziQUZHnDkzPBZJ4GFbhn8mVxoyxJzCGq482a2BDHvfnMfX1u4hdX1XfS7ZdHJXffydLPHjCXBY86sG6tE1"
    },
    "seed_type": "bip39",
    "seed_version": 18,
    "use_encryption": false,
    "wallet_type": "standard"
}
  1. Replace xprv and xpub sections with your Wasabi wallet's Extended Account zprv and Extended Account zpub

TIP

Steps to find your master private key inside Wasabi:

  • Go to Advanced tab -> Wallet Info.
  • Copy your Extended Account zprv
  • Copy your Extended Account zpub

You are at risk!

By pasting the master private key on a hot or compromised device, you risk losing your funds.

  1. Open the wallet file you created in Electrum

If your balance is not correct maybe it is necessary to change the gap_limit or the gap_limit_for_change to 100 or even more if needed.

  1. Open Electrum's Console and type the following commands:
wallet.change_gap_limit(100)
wallet.gap_limit_for_change = 100
wallet.synchronize()

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