Can't Generate a Legacy Wallet? about electrum-ltc HOT 3 OPEN

Since version 4.1.0 of Electrum, the wallet creation wizard no longer asks for a seed type, and creates segwit wallets with bech32 addresses. Older seed types can still be created with the command line, or via the console tab with:

make_seed(seed_type="standard")

This will display a new seed which you can then use to "restore" a fresh legacy wallet.

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@pooler

So I used the console and put in command make_seed(seed_type="standard")and it generated new seed.

Then proceded to create new wallet and imported/restored with seed generated from console and it worked. 👍

[Created Address with Uppers and Lowers case] aka Legacy

Thanks

Is this console command documented on the site?

In Closing the issue, if its not documented make_seed(seed_type="standard") it should be added on site and Wiki to safe people the hasle when trying to buy LTC and address not working cause its not Legacy to begin with.

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I agree this should probably be better documented, even upstream. Googling the issue mostly returns results for unofficial (although helpful) pages:
https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/mku14h/how_do_you_create_legacy_wallet_from_command_line/

I think it might even be a good idea to revert the change to the wallet creation wizard in future releases of Electrum-LTC, given how bech32 addresses are still not widely supported.

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