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Title: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: monoplus on January 07, 2017, 04:30:03 AM have a private key pair printed out on paper. am trying to get it into electrum so i can transfer it.
i go to private key -sweep--and paste the private key into the box--and basically nothing happens.--cant continue from there--must cancel what am I doing wrong?? Title: Re: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: shorena on January 07, 2017, 05:07:29 AM is it encrypted? (starts with a 6)
Title: Re: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: monoplus on January 07, 2017, 05:11:53 AM does not start with 6
Title: Re: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: monoplus on January 07, 2017, 05:18:20 AM looking at this printout from bitaddress.org--all private keys start with 5
Title: Re: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: pooya87 on January 07, 2017, 05:26:05 AM you are aware that you have to create a new wallet right? because you can not import private keys in a wallet that has seed, you have to make a new one and import your private keys that way.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients you can also sweep they keys (spend the balance by sending from that private key to one of your addresses in your electrum wallet) got to wallet > Private keys > sweep Title: Re: cannot sweep private key into electrum Post by: monoplus on January 07, 2017, 05:33:51 AM my bad--had one charachter wrong--got it into electrum now QandG
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