Title: How export my private key from bitcoin-qt client Post by: schnuber on March 07, 2014, 07:57:00 AM Hello
I want to transfer my bitcoins from my local bitcoin-qt wallet to my blockchain.info wallet. Since I have slow internet connection I dont want to download the blockchain but as long as I don't do that bitcoin-qt prevents me from spending my coins. So my idea is to sweep my balance into the blockchain.info account. However, in order to do that, I have to know my private keys of my bitcoin-qt wallet in text format. The wallet.dat file is binary. So how do I export my private keys to text? I already tried the dumpprivkey command, but it says "privat key for address <> is not known". thx for help Title: Re: How export my private key from bitcoin-qt client Post by: spin on March 07, 2014, 10:27:17 AM You need to provide the address:
e.g. Code: dumpprivkey 19yofyuGveqVMofLhW6dLH36mZuudfEBt1 Title: Re: How export my private key from bitcoin-qt client Post by: Abdussamad on March 07, 2014, 10:49:28 AM You can import the wallet file directly:
https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet But note that a desktop wallet is much better than a web based one. If you can't wait for blockchain to download you can use a lite client like electrum. To extract the individual private keys from your wallet.dat file you may want to unlock the wallet first: walletpassphrase <password> <time in seconds> For example: walletpassphrase mypassword 600 |