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I have a Cryptolator 2014 physical bitcoin. I want to transfer the btc from it into a wallet so i can spend it. When I imported the key address into my wallet on blockchain it shows the value of .1 BTC. I peeled the hologram off the coin and it has the private key on the back but when i type in the private key to try and send that value to my wallet it says the private key doesn't match the coin's address. Am I doing something wrong or am I screwed here? Any help is appreciated.

Check the private key properly as if you have typed wrongly some letters or the pattern you may be missing. If not from where you bought try to contact them as their are some old users who are still dealing in this type of physical btc.

Where exactly are you importing the private key? in which wallet? What exactly does your wallet say? When importing the private key it usually just gives you a set of adresses associated with it, not the ones that aren't associated with it. ( which seems to be your case?)

Try to use https://electrum.org/#home, and make sure all caps are correct. It should work.

Maybe you've made a new account and maybe that is not your account last 2014. Where do you open your account? On your cellphone? Because maybe you've change a phone and make another wallet in your new phone that's why the private key doesn't match? Or maybe you don't copy paste the whole private key. Try to check carefully if you totally copied the whole private key.

I assume you mean you have a blockchain.info wallet...

b.info seems to have a lot of issues with imported keys and compressed/uncompressed addresses. It is possible that the key you have is correct, but b.info is generating the incorrect address for it...

To fix this (and double check that the private key you have matches the public address you have), try the following:

1. Create an offline copy of https://www.bitaddress.org (basically, click the "zip" link at the bottom of the page and then extract it)...
2. Run your "offline" copy while your computer is not connected to any network...
3. Click the "wallet details" tab
4. Enter your private key in the textbox and click "view details".

You will see two addresses: "Bitcoin Address" and a "Bitcoin Address Compressed", below that you will see two private keys: "Private Key WIF" and "Private Key WIF Compressed"... match the right private key with the public address that has the 0.1 BTC... that should be the private key you want to import...

If that doesn't work, try importing the OTHER private key and see if that works! (Yes, that's how broken b.info is!!?! ::))

You can easily download OCR reader from the google play or itunes stores, helps prevent errors by using the mobile devices camera to read and translate the characters correctly.

Sure can, give that scanned private key to whoever is operating the OCR reader app!

No, please don't.