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Bitcoin wallet developers may find this tool helpful during testing, such as for switching between mainnet and testnet versions.

Bitcoin users may find this tool helpful if they are trying to import watch-only wallets into software that expects
a specific version of extended public key with regard to the paths used for key derivation.
a specific version of extended public key with regard to the paths used for key derivation. (For example, those seeking to export an xpub/ypub/zpub from Ledger Live to use in some other wallet or tool.)

Standards
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This tool uses version bytes as described in [SLIP-0132](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0132.md)

Usage
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**Online**

You can run this tool in your browser directly from Github [by clicking here](https://3rditeration.github.io/btc-extended-key-converter/)

**Offline**

Simply unzipping this Github repository and running index.html in any browser will run the tool correctly.

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<p>You can enter any version of a valid Bitcoin extended public/private key and convert it to another version of the same extended key.</p>
<p>You can enter any version of a valid Bitcoin extended public/private key and convert it to another version of the same extended key. (For example, exporting an xpub/ypub/zpub from Ledger Live to use in some other wallet or tool.)</p>
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For more info see <a href="https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0132.md" target="_blank">SLIP-0132</a>.
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<p><b>The online version of this tool should only ever be used for working with extended public keys (xpub, etc) or for testing/education purposes...</b>
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You should normally never need to convert or handle xprv keys except in VERY SPECIFIC recovery situations... Working with extended private keys (xprv/yprv/zprv, etc) should only ever be done in an offline, amnesic environment like TAILS Linux... <a href="https://github.com/3rdIteration/btc-extended-key-converter/archive/master.zip">Click here to download a zip file containing this tool to run offline</a> </p>
You should normally never need to convert or handle xprv keys except in VERY SPECIFIC recovery situations... Working with extended private keys (xprv/yprv/zprv, etc) should only ever be done in an offline (all networking disconnected), amnesic environment like TAILS Linux... <a href="https://github.com/3rdIteration/btc-extended-key-converter/archive/master.zip">Click here to download a zip file containing this tool to run offline</a> </p>

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Error: Input and Output extended key type must match...

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Help me please. Error: Input and Output extended key type must match...

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