How to restore blockchain.com wallet into electrum

blockonomics_mod · December 28, 2022, 7:21pm

Below are four easy steps to import your blockchain wallet into electrum. Make sure to have electrum downloaded from the official site

Apr 28, 2020 • 2 min read

Below are five easy steps to import your blockchain wallet into electrum. Make sure to have electrum downloaded from the official site

Step 1

Step 2

We will use our blockchain wallet seed Step 3

Blockchain wallet seed can be obtained from Security Center > Backup Phrase

Enter the 12 word seed and make sure select BIP39 seed by clicking on Options Step 4 Settings for blockchain segwit wallet

Find below are different path settings to discover funds:

Segwit Wallet — native segwit (p2wpkh), Derviation Path (default) — m/84'/0'/0'
Segwit Wallet (Recover Funds) — legacy (p2pkh), Derviation Path (Make sure you manually change this) — m/84'/0'/0'
Legacy Wallet— legacy (p2pkh), Derviation Path (default) — m/44'/0'/0'

Step 5 Choose a password for security. Note that this has relation to the blockchain wallet password

Done! Your wallet is now recovered. Enjoy truly being your own bank !

Step 6 (Optional)

The existing base unit in electrum is mBTC which is confusing

Goto Tools > Preferences and set Base Unit as BTC. You can also set the explorer to blockonomics.co