Recovering BCH from deprecated software wallets

Wallets
#1

Hey,

I have some BCH sitting in a software wallet (BRD) that’s been deprecated. I can see it on block explorers, and it’s still there, never been sent away. I still have the recovery phrase. I’m wondering what you guys would do to get the private key and send the BCH to cold storage.

Coinbase wallet supposedly allowed one to restore his old BRD wallet, but I believe coinbase wallet no longer supports BCH. I certainly don’t expect someone to be able to tell me exactly what I need to do, but if you could point me in the right direction on how you’d determine what cryptographic primitives were used by BRD to get from my recovery phrase to private key, and/or what software to use to send my transaction to cold storage, I’d be grateful.

Thank you!

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#2

Download Electron Cash wallet, and when importing the seed words choose custom derivation path:

The derivation path of BRD, according to https://walletsrecovery.org/, is m/0' . Type m/0' when Electrum prompts for the derivation path.

(source)

If that doesn’t work, try m/145'

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#3

I think OP said on telegram that he has 20 seed words in his phrase. Not 12, not 24, but 20.

Are you sure it is possible to import this using Electron Cash? Does it support 20-word seeds?

#4

How about getting an old package version or BRD wallet from sites like Old Versions of Android Software - OldVersion.com and running the wallet in android emulator without network connection?

Doing it without network will make sure that the wallet cannot steal your funds in case the APK you download is fake/scam/backdoored.

Hopefully the wallet will allow exporting individual private keys, these keys can then be imported manually in Electron Cash.

#5

It’s not the same person and not the same problem.

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#6

Can confirm this is the derivation for my old brd wallet. This is also off-topic for BCH Research so I will lock it. Plase use some of the common general discussion forums such as BCH general telegram.

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