<p>I have seen a recent service advertising that users can turn their Electrum Wallets in to a "Cold Wallet" by providing the 3rd party service the Master Public Key from the Electrum wallet.</p>

<p>Ignoring the "Cold Wallet" aspect, and besides turning over complete wallet privacy to a third party what other reasons should users be encouraged to do this or not do this?</p>

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Should Electrum users give out their master public key?
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# Should Electrum users give out their master public key?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-02-13)

I have seen a recent service advertising that users can turn their Electrum Wallets in to a "Cold Wallet" by providing the 3rd party service the Master Public Key from the Electrum wallet.

Ignoring the "Cold Wallet" aspect, and besides turning over complete wallet privacy to a third party what other reasons should users be encouraged to do this or not do this?

**Tags:** electrum, bip32-hd-wallets


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