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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: xishon on April 18, 2017, 02:29:18 PM



Title: Create Child Private Keys With HD Wallet Master Key
Post by: xishon on April 18, 2017, 02:29:18 PM
Using Bitcoin-core, How can we create child private keys from Wallet Master Key using HD Wallets?


Title: Re: Create Child Private Keys With HD Wallet Master Key
Post by: Sniper44 on April 18, 2017, 02:35:52 PM
if you are asking how technically to do it, i can not help you. maybe ask it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0

but as an end user you can use the wallet that created that Masker Private Key or Seed and most wallets have the option to see the private key of a single address. for example Electrum that i am using and is a HD wallet allows you to do this.

just right click and select private key.
what wallet are you using?

bitcoin-core uses bip32 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki) since i have never used core before i can not help you more, sorry.


Title: Re: Create Child Private Keys With HD Wallet Master Key
Post by: odolvlobo on April 18, 2017, 03:30:42 PM
The Core wallet is not an HD wallet, so you can't. I guess I am way behind the times ...


Title: Re: Create Child Private Keys With HD Wallet Master Key
Post by: xishon on April 18, 2017, 04:20:38 PM
I think Bitcoin with Version 0.13.1 create HD Wallet by Default.
 


Title: Re: Create Child Private Keys With HD Wallet Master Key
Post by: cr1776 on April 18, 2017, 04:55:40 PM
The Core wallet is not an HD wallet, so you can't.

Bitcoin Core creates new HD wallets by default now (since 0.13.x). It won't convert old wallets (yet) though.