Hello everyone, bought a mining rig and have been getting paid out in BTC by nicehash. Was sending it to a paper wallet I got from blockchain info, public address is working transaction history can be checked. But now when I go to try to import the wallet into electrum I'm stuck entering the key. It seems my response isn't in the proper format because the wallet will not allow me to move forward

Here is the path I've taken

Create default wallet > Standard Wallet > use public or private keys > and I get stuck on "create keystore from keys"

Because it's a paper wallet I don't have any files to upload, and I didn't bother printing anything out either. So the only option left is to just type in the private key as far as I can tell. But when I do this for the public or private key "next" is still greyed out. I just in plain text type out the addy with no spaces or tabs.

What am I doing wrong?

DO i need to format the private key in a special way? Again i can check my public addy so I know that's correct. It should at least let me make a watching only wallet. But I can't do either, I must be doing something fundamentally wrong or my install was bad.

Any help appreciated

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Hello everyone, first post, just wanted to get your thoughts on a rig I was putting together. Friend had me look into building an AMD machine to mine ethereum for him but came to the conclusion we couldn't source the cards. While doing that I got turned onto nice hash. Went over the numbers and figured why not?

So the list below is basically it minus a few components and GPUs. I would still need the USB risers, another PSU, probably some adapters for power, case. Trying to both cut costs and make sure I'm choosing hardware that comes with a good reputation. Also get recommendations on the best way to distribute power between PSUs. At the moment I had planned to put 3 of the GPUs and mobo on the 1250 watt. And then 3 more on a 1200 watt. But I'm not sure ~850 watt draw through a 1250 is pushing it. What would you guys do if you were planning what I was?

I just ordered 3 of the Gaming X's, all the cheaper models with decent fans had a limit of 1 per customer so I went with the nice and quiet option. And yes I know I'm over paying for a CPU, but i'd like to put it to other uses later. The reason I went with the 1080ti is they are still going for the manufacturers suggested retail and will retain their value better relative to a 1070 I paid 450 for, it's not worth that to a gamer.

Other obvious places to cut are the windows 10, I could go linux, some other os, or just find a cheaper copy (which i would prefer, windows only OS i'm familiar with)

And the SSD maybe I could cut some costs? If I went with a stick I'd probably want one that came with brand recognition and didn't cost much less than a decent SSD.

My power rate is just over .10 KWH so power efficiency isn't some huge boon. But not negligible with this power draw, which is why I only went to gold.

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($69.89 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI - Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($131.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($33.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($69.16 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($784.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($784.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (2-Way SLI)  ($784.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - X Series 1250W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($219.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($89.89 @ OutletPC)


Any glaring flaws? Is that motherboard well thought of in the mining community? Would you get a bigger PSU for 3 cards and the mobo?

Any input you have on the build would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time