I am completely new to everything bitcoin related. I am using Electrum 2.2.
To receive bitcoins from a poker site, I created an address using the Bitcoin Core wallet.
When I realized that synchronizing takes forever, I downloaded Electrum and used the address from Bitcoin Core
to create my first Electrum wallet.
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To receive bitcoins from a poker site, I created an address using the Bitcoin Core wallet.
When I realized that synchronizing takes forever, I downloaded Electrum and used the address from Bitcoin Core
to create my first Electrum wallet.
...
In order to spend bitcoins from an address, you need the private key. Only your Bitcoin Core wallet has the private key to the address you are using. You can acquire the private key from Bitcoin Core and import it into your Electrum wallet.
Start Bitcoin Core, go to the debug console, and use the "dumpprivkey" command to print out the private key. Then go to Electrum and import that private key. I don't know the details, but you can probably figure them out.
Sir, you just made my day!
I created a new wallet in Electrum and selected "restore or import keys", pasted the key I got from Core and it worked perfectly!
Thank you so much, I was close to giving up
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