One of those options is BIP39 (limited for Bitcoin Advancement Proposal: 39). BIP39 is a typical that proposed employing a mnemonic phrase -- a group of effortless to remember phrases -- to function a again as much as Get well your wallet and cash in the function your wallet

I propose only grabbing tagged branches that were introduced in github. You can check for a afterwards Edition less than GitHub's releases url. Standard strategy is always to export non-public keys from old qt wallet.dat file and import them into electrum. I personally wouldn't sweep them