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How the step to create a wallet that can be imported to cashtab?

aalfiann opened this issue · comments

Describe the issue
I want to create mynodewallet so I run this command

./bitcoin-cli createwallet "mynodewallet"

But I don't see the MNEMONIC / Seedphrase

My question is How the step to create a wallet that can be imported to cashtab?

I've read the RPC Documentation but still confusing for first time user.
There should be any tutorial for basic setup like this.

Thanks for the help.

What version of Bitcoin ABC are you using, where did you get it (website, self-compiled, etc)?  
I use BitcoinABC v 0.24.5 ubuntu version.

What type of machine are you observing the error on (OS/CPU and disk type)?
Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

Both Bitcoin ABC and CashTab use a hierachical deterministic HD seed to generate addresses and private keys. The node does not however generate a HD seed that can be imported into CashTab, because CashTab (like most other crypto wallets today) expects the seed format to be a BIP 39 mnemonic phrase. Bitcoin ABC does not generate a BIP39 mnemonic, and there is no way to convert the HD seed it generates into such a mnemonic.

You could maybe find a way to do it the other way around: generate a wallet with CashTab, take the corresponding BIP39 mnemonic, turn it into a HD seed and import it in the node's wallet with sethdseed.
But I do not advise to do that. You would maybe see your CashTab transactions in the node, but probably not all the node's transactions in CashTab.