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Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet for Android is a simple open source client. It gives you full control over your money, but relies on centralized validation.

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Is it important to have an unencrypted backup of the private key?

Am I correct that in not having our private keys written in paper or otherwise backed up we are implicitly trusting the wallet developers to keep publishing wallet versions that are capable of reading and deciphering our password-phrase? Nobody else…
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If a single private key of the HD bitcoin account is compromised, is the whole HD account compromised?

The subject pretty much asks it all. I asked the same question on the Mycelium web site but did not get an answer. An HD account can have multiple private keys. Suppose one of the previous private keys gets compromised (falls into hands of a hacker)…
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How to sweep private extended key from mycellium for bitcoin cash coins?

I have my coins stored in mycellium, but when I try to export my private key I get a private extended key. How can I import this into coinomi android wallet? I see there is a sweep option in conomi, but it doesnt state that it supports an extended…
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Where is the Mycelium wallet file stored?

I have a fairly straightforward question that's still unanswered after googling for days for a definite answer, I hope you guys can help me out with this one here. Background: I have Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet installed on my Android phone [ROOT], I…
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How to generate public and private key pairs from the 12 seed words in python

I basically followed the instructions here How to generate mycelium addresses from the 12 words in python So my code is similar: from bip32utils import BIP32Key from bip32utils import BIP32_HARDEN from bip32utils import Base58 import os,…
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How can I unstuck a transaction sent from Mycelium?

My transaction has been unconfirmed for more than a week. I had a normal transaction fee (not low). The amount of the transaction was not small >0.5btc. The inputs were not unconfirmed outputs. The transaction came from a Mycelium wallet to a…
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How to generate mycelium addresses from the 12 words in python

I am trying to re-generate the receiving addresses (and change addresses, for that matter) my mycelium wallet has generated. So far I've used trezor's implementation of BIP39 to generate the entropy from the 12 words, and a BIP32 implementation I…
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BTC on Mycelium to Bitcoin Gold?

I have some BTC on my Mycelium (Android) wallet and I was wondering if it's possible to now access (hopefully) my Bitcoin Gold. It seems I can't get the normal private keys off of Mycelium, but I have my 12 word seed at hand. Are there any wallets…
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After receiving bitcoin, they were sent to an unknown address 16 minutes later

I received BTC payment from my friend by qr code scaning on date 31st July (1 day before 1st August HF). https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/8710bdb6f1d34e882bab7fbbdb4b94266032672c54a042df88e25d1518ab40a8 The incoming transaction has shown on my…
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How do i get my Bitcoin Cash from Mycelium wallet?

I kept my BTC in a mycelium wallet and am looking for a way to get BCH out of it. I need instructions on how it's possible, please.
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Can you retrieve funds send to a legacy address created with a Segwit extended private key imported in Mycelium from a Ledger Nano S?

I imported a segwit xpub6-key in Mycelium as a watch only address. It only shows address starting with 1 instead of 3, which makes sense. I retrieved a small amount on the legacy address and it shows up in Mycelium and on block explorers. But as a…
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Wallet passphrase uniqueness (noob question)

The Mycelium Wallet has created a Bitcoin wallet for me, then I've written down a 12-word passphrase for the wallet backup. However it looks like a set of words (in the Mycelium) to generate these phrases is limited - at least I've got a passphrase…
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What is the cheapest way to acquire bitcoins?

What is the cheapest and easiest way to acquire bitcoin for a beginner? I bought bitcoin from an ATM and had to pay 10% premium. I downloaded a mycelium wallet on my iPhone and I noticed that the fees are insane. A minimum fee is currently 12,68$…
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Are there wallets that provide access to different HD wallets from the same masterseed using different passphrases?

I have a well-protected masterseed that I have not memorized, and memorizing it won't help since it could already be compromised. My solution is to use a clever passphrase on top of that masterseed. I've been looking around in Mycelium because I…
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Setting up a multi-signature Bitcoin address with Mycelium

I currently have a shared account with my dad with just a cloned copy of the private key and I would like to setup a multi-signature account with him. I'm trying to do this with Mycelium, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. My main goal is…
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