Restoring Wasabi Wallet in Electrum
A detailed guide about restoring a wallet created from Wasabi to Electrum. This is the Wasabi documentation, an archive of knowledge about the open-source, non-custodial and privacy-focused Bitcoin wa
:::danger Potential privacy leak! If you do not run your own Electrum server, you will leak all your addresses to random third-party servers, losing 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 set up Tor on Network preferences or by installing your own Electrum server via Electrum Personal Server, ElectrumX or Electrs. :::
:::warning Electrum does currently not support Taproot As of Wasabi version 2.0.3, users may receive Taproot outputs from coinjoin or as a change output from a normal transaction. So when recovering a wallet from Wasabi in Electrum some funds might be missing, as the Taproot (SegWit v1) coins are not shown. An other wallet that does support Taproot should be used for recovering Taproot coins. :::
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Restoring Wasabi Wallet via Electrum GUI
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
.Name your new Electrum wallet.
Choose
Standard wallet
.Choose
I already have a seed
.Type in your seed (recovery words).
Click the
Options
button, then selectBIP39 seed
and if you created your Wasabi wallet with a password make sure to checkExtend this seed with custom words
and type your password in theSeed extension
window.On the
Script type and Derivation path
window, choosenative SegWit (p2wpkh)
or manually insertm/84'/0'/0'
.Increase the gap limit by opening Electrum's
Console
and execute the following commands:
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