<p>I assume you mean that you have something like a hardware wallet where you have a seed and different kinds of addresses generated using xpubs derived from that seed.</p>
<p>Assuming that the xpub will be generated using the derivation path standard defined in BIP 86, then yes, you will need your cold wallet. That standard derivation path uses hardened steps which require access to private keys in order to derive.</p>

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Ava Chow
<p>If you would like to generate a taproot wallet with your deep cold wallet seed, would you need to access the wallet to generate it?
Say if the seed/master pubkey is already used for native or nested segwit.</p>

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You're using the word wallet twice here, presumably in a different meaning. Clearly if you're generating a new wallet, you don't need any existing wallet already.
Pieter Wuille
<wallet><seed><taproot><xpub>
Would you need to access your cold wallet to generate a taproot xpub?
Bertram Lund
# Would you need to access your cold wallet to generate a taproot xpub?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-31)

If you would like to generate a taproot wallet with your deep cold wallet seed, would you need to access the wallet to generate it?
Say if the seed/master pubkey is already used for native or nested segwit.

**Tags:** wallet, seed, taproot, xpub

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You're using the word wallet twice here, presumably in a different meaning. Clearly if you're generating a new wallet, you don't need any existing wallet already.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2022-01-31. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

I assume you mean that you have something like a hardware wallet where you have a seed and different kinds of addresses generated using xpubs derived from that seed.

Assuming that the xpub will be generated using the derivation path standard defined in BIP 86, then yes, you will need your cold wallet. That standard derivation path uses hardened steps which require access to private keys in order to derive.


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