Sunday, February 24, 2019

Can two wallets with different seeds contain the same bitcoin?

Hi all,

I have a strange occurrence which I need some help figuring out.

Yesterday I was checking on my various electrum wallets by putting my seeds into electrum. It was just a routine check to see they are there and everything is working.

My main wallets seed worked fine and showed the correct amount. Then I entered another seed I had written down and can't remember where it was from. Within that wallet was almost as much as my main wallet... Only there's no way I have collected this amount of BTC in total.

Now I think this stems from when I split my BTC for BCH last year out of the BCH electrum wallet. (I followed the electrum.org guide correctly with no problems).

My question is can two different seeds contain the same bitcoin? If I mixed these two wallets would I be in danger of corrupting or in some way losing my main BTC?

Sorry from the long post, I'm quite confused by this..



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