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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: proletariat on October 18, 2015, 06:33:26 PM



Title: privkey
Post by: proletariat on October 18, 2015, 06:33:26 PM
quick noob question:
Is the privkey in a different format from that of a normal wallet?


Title: Re: privkey
Post by: OmegaStarScream on October 18, 2015, 06:36:55 PM
quick noob question:
Is the privkey in a different format from that of a normal wallet?

What do you mean ? You can export private keys on Electrum and import them later on another wallet (blockchain.info for example) . a private key should begin with 5 or L or K as far as I know .


Title: Re: privkey
Post by: proletariat on October 18, 2015, 06:39:22 PM
quick noob question:
Is the privkey in a different format from that of a normal wallet?

What do you mean ? You can export private keys on Electrum and import them later on another wallet (blockchain.info for example) . a private key should begin with 5 or L or K as far as I know .

oh okay, just trying to import it to another wallet and was having trouble with it, just wanted to make sure the format was the same. and yeah I got mine with the letter L.

Thanks.