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Title: Electrum wallet to Core wallet Post by: babelfish42 on December 04, 2023, 06:50:04 AM Hello, I need to import a wallet that I have in Electrum into Bitcoin Core.
I have exported the private key from electrum. But when I try importprivkey 'privatekeyfromelextrum'. I get only legacy wallets are supported by this command.... Thanks for your help! Title: Re: Electrum wallet to Core wallet Post by: nc50lc on December 04, 2023, 07:03:18 AM Use importdescriptors command followed by the descriptor containing your WIF private key with checksum and timestamp.
For example (native SegWit): Code: importdescriptors "[{\"desc\": \"wpkh(privatekeyfromelextrum)#checksum\", \"timestamp\":0}]"To get the correct checksum, use the command, getdescriptorinfo. For example: Code: getdescriptorinfo "wpkh(privatekeyfromelextrum)" If your address is legacy from old version of Electrum, replace "wpkh" with "pkh". The importprivkey command will work if you create a non-descriptor wallet but Bitcoin Core will soon drop support for such wallet format so it's better to learn those descriptor wallet-comaptible commands. Title: Re: Electrum wallet to Core wallet Post by: DifDrama on December 04, 2023, 09:09:44 AM nc50lc has already provided a great answer to your question. I just wanted to add that the official Bitcoin Core documentation offers comprehensive insights into commands, usage, and wallet management. You can access it here: https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/
Title: Re: Electrum wallet to Core wallet Post by: babelfish42 on December 04, 2023, 01:02:48 PM The private key appears to be a p2pkh. Does that change anything?
This wallet was originally a Zelcore wallet that exports the private keys is WIF format. Thank you! Title: Re: Electrum wallet to Core wallet Post by: o_e_l_e_o on December 04, 2023, 01:19:16 PM Private keys don't specify a script type, but if you want to recover a P2PKH address beginning with "1", then just change from wpkh to pkh in nc50lc's instructions above.
Run getdescriptorinfo to get the checksum, then importdescriptors with the calculated checksum. |