Exporting private Keys from Ellipal works o.k - but unfortunately not from Electra-Mobile-wallet

I've been a bit to lazy to look true all options on the Ellipal-App, but with the Instructions in the post just above, extracting a private Key-from an Electra-Address on Ellipal, and importing it into the Electra-Core-wallet, works just fine...

(As most informations about using Mnemonic codes stipulate, that Mnemonics of the same length should work on all Devices using Mnemonic codes - so that you just could use any other app that supports your specific coin and restore your wallet using the Mnemonic - and Ellipal states this expressively on its web-page- I was hopeful that the Ellipal App might provide a solution for the users of the Electra-Mobile wallets, as the Ellipal app allows you to export your private Keys (create a paper-wallet), while the Electra-App doesn't - (or I have been unable to find out how, and as their is no support).)

But, unfortunately, using the same Mnemonic on the Electra-App and the Ellipal App doesn't produce the same address, so you CAN'T restore the coins on your Electra-Mobile-wallet on the Ellipal-App..

How can this be? The only explanation is that the Electra-App uses a non-standart procedure to generate addresses from the Mnemonic. If this is really the case, launching an App that doesn't allow to extract private keys was always a bad idea... - and in that case, ending server support on a rather short notice is even worse....

Glad to see that your problem was solved, although I would never have suggested that you need to unlock your wallet before importing your private key, because that seemed to obvious...

The rather more interesting question is "How did you get your private key" from Ellipal

(I'm actually only asking out of technical curiosity, because I have neither coins on Ellipal nor on a Electra-mobile App - but may be a solution could be of interest to people who have their coins stuck on Mobile Electra wallets, unless / until they come (eventually) online once again....)

I know that Coinomi offers a link to a tool that allows to extract private keys, if you only know the Mnemonic... Tried this with the Mnemonic from my (empty) Android Electra wallet. Now, the tools supports many coins, but not explicitly Electra... So I looked if from Adress-Format / Private Key Format another coin would come very close...  Indeed, the result for EINSTEINIUM looked like an Electra address (both address format AND Private-Key-Format). But - unfortunately - I couldn't find my ECA-Address from the mobile wallet on that list... - although I could import that private key in to the Electra-wallet, and it was accepted as belonging to the same Address as on the list, so the format (including formula for private-Key/Address generation) seems to be identic between ECA and Einsteinium...

So, the question, how to extract a private key from Ellipal - just for fun, I donwloaded the Ellipal app as well, insertet the same Mnemonic, selected ECA as Coin, and received an address (but, unfortunaltely, again not the same as on my Mobile-Electra wallet). And, of course, I couldn't find any information in the Ellipal App OR on the Ellipal webpage how to get the private-key for that address...

So, the question, how did you get your correct Electra-private key out of Ellipal might really be of interest to several Electra-Holders with coins on their mobile wallet...

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I have tried to convince the Electra foundation to stay open for now and all ECA funds are still there ready for anyone from the ECA community to control if they apply as board members. Any user interested in applying to the foundation is welcome to and will have to travel to the Netherlands to complete the process. I will aim to keep it open until around August but how long it stays open also depends on the mercy of the former board members.


As I have written many times before, Electra is a decentralized project. This has benefits but also consequences. The “Electra project” Github page was owned by members of the current XEP/former ECA team. I found out today that the page including all source code, wallets, and whitepaper have been deleted. Luckily, I anticipated this risk and migrated/backed-up all of this to the former original Electra Github page a few weeks ago. The OP in this thread contains all updated links for the wallets, source code and whitepaper. CMC links will be updated in the coming days. I have also been forced to hastily create a new website as the old one also belongs to a former team member who has decided to delete all content on the website (I was warned about that beforehand at least). The new Electra website is humble but does the job and is safer than a conventional website: electracore.weebly.com


I condemn these hostile moves by the XEP team (even though there ARE also certain people in the XEP team I consider decent and have no issues who are always welcome back in ECA). The pages were deleted without informing me and had I not backed these up, ECA would have been dead and everyone’s holdings doomed. This is one of the lowest acts I have seen in the cryptocurrency sector. They need to remember that a lot of people who got the XEP airdrop also still own ECA and attempts to sabotage ECA hurts both XEP (their own community) and ECA holders. The XEP team has again demonstrated publically that they use the word “community” for marketing only and not in actuality. They are willing to damage and destroy the holdings of multiple communities and users for negative feelings they harbor for one person. That Github page was maintenance free so to take the effort to log in there and delete it is not a cost-saving act but a malicious one. I have never in my life seen people delete source code to sabotage all holders of a specific coin. As said in the previous paragraph, I luckily backed it up and released it in the OP.


I have looked at the XEP block explorer and block 1 and have strong opinions on the distribution method and invite everyone to look at it also and do their own due diligence. If you want to invest in/HODL a coin where certain/all team members have a track record of abandoning projects/investors, losing users’ funds, lying,  blackmail, deleting source code, wallets and critical users’ comments, then XEP is a good choice. XEP was 100% pre-mined and has more pre-mine and total supply than ECA ever had. All pre-mine is again controlled by one person who is also currently deciding who gets an airdrop and who doesn’t. I believe everyone who applied will get the airdrop but there is also a risk certain team members will get a lot more XEP than their original ECA holdings because it will be easy to mask. It depends on how the person in charge of the 27,000,000,000 XEP distributes it. I suggest all to watch that number closely as it is an intimidating amount. After the 27,000,000,000, there is also an additional 3 billion pre-mine that is held by one person and it is already fully mined. On the XEP rich list it says it will come in 2022, 2023 etc. but it is already out and ready to use. After the airdrop is distributed, assuming the unclaimed amount is burned accurately, I estimate their pre-mine will account for approximately 25%+ of the total supply. This whole ECA/XEP drama began over 200,000,000 ECA and the “ethical” solution the team has offered is 3,000,000,000 pre-mined XEP + a 27 billion pre-mine that can be airdropped/distributed manually however THEY want. Congratulations to everyone who will get the airdrop, you will make money wherever the price goes because you had no entry cost.  I won’t go as far as speculating on my predicted price but I would rather bet on a horse race than buy XEP at the IEO price.

Hello mate,

The solution here should solve your passphrase issue:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5941/how-do-i-import-a-private-key-into-bitcoin-core

Let me know the result. Also many thanks to GoodHabit for helping out.

Well, the question I see here is - could you use the process that you received from the Ellipal support (as this was the method to get the private key?) If yes, importing should work, if it doesn't - it's either the wrong key - as you did something wrong - OR - there are multiple keys, and you would have to check  / try which one is for the address that holds your coins. OR the process described by Ellipal doesn't work, so - again, you would have to check with their support....

OTOH, As far as I understand the Ellipal manual, you could also enter your mnemonic in to the mobile ECA-wallet, and this would work IF - and thats the BIG IF - those will ever work again....

Well, there are very few people here, so even if someone has some knowledge, it will take time until your problem will be noticed...

I don't actually get what you mean with "stuck in blockchain"... since your last question I looked up the webpage of Ellipal, and if I understood correctly, they don't actually offer an option to extract your private key.. IF you really have your private key, it should be a 52character word starting wit Qq...... - if you have something different, it's not your Electra private key,.
If it IS, however, than you should be able to import it in to your Electra-Core wallet.

OTOH, I can't find any information on Ellipal's Website that they ever supported Electra, and it would be a problem between you and Ellipal, if they did and then delisted it without providing your private keys...

Dear E01,

My eca's are stuck on my mobile wallet and I cannot send them to all desktop or exchange.

Could you please help solving this problem
Making the mobile wallets work again.

Thanks in advance!