Are Byron Wallets valid and restorable forever?

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Hi,

I have 2 old Byron-Wallets (Daedalus & Yoroi), Daedalus and Yoroi are uninstalled (recovery phrase saved, of course). Will it be possible to restore & convert/import/transfer the wallets at anytimy in the future or is there a ‘deadline’ to do that? I don’t want to stake (because of tax), so there is no reason to hurry up for me.
Is there an official statement from Cardano/IOHK that old wallets will be restorable forever?

Thank you and regards

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Hi,
For the moment there is no announcement regarding the byron wallets… I believe they will not stop/delete byron era from the blockchain

PS: u can migrate to shelley era without delegating (u will not be forced to delegate)

Cheers,

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Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I think also, they will not delete Byron from the Blockchain.
The only problem I see is, if the wallets (Yoroi) will stop to have the option for restoring and claim/transfer from old wallets. I did not make any tests with Adalite & Typhon to restore old byron wallets.

I know, that I can use Shelly-Wallets without staking.
The reason, why I dont like to migrate is, because I decrypted and saved the recovery-phrases on different locations and I dont like to do it all again…

Regards

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ok, then stay on byron … should be ok

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hmmm why stay on byron :thinking: if it dont expand with new functions…nft,dapps,staking and more stuff in the pipeline for years ahead.guys you think many people didnt switch to shelly??tell me how many % of the wallets didnt?? :thinking:
:heart: cardano :heart:

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Is there any other place to restore byron wallets besides daedulus?

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Is there any other way to restore byron wallets with 27 word phrase besides daedulus?

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https://adalite.io/ can do it.

(Check on https://developers.cardano.org/showcase/?tags=wallet or https://cardano-community.github.io/support-faq/Wallets/list/ that it is a legitimate wallet app I’m sending you too. Never just trust anyone giving you a link.)

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I got daedulus to work. It took 2 weeks to download.

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Regarding the original question of whether Byron wallets are valid and restorable:

The only thing that can make them “invalid” is when you can’t consume a UTXO which has a Byron address due to the software not supporting it. I think this is unlikely to ever happen because “blockchain is forever”.

On restoring: you’ll always be able to restore a wallet because it’s an algorithm, so even when there isn’t a wallet that supports it out of the box, then the definition can be looked up and implemented.