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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Corrupted private key? on: February 23, 2021, 12:08:58 PM
Hi,
In late 2013 I generated wallet most probably with www.bitaddress.org. I saved id and secret (private key?) . The address is 34 characters long and blockchain.com show it's base58 (p2pkh) format and shows some  small balance.
Now I have  secret (afaik - private key?) that is 64 characters long starts with nV... .   Bitaddress.org won't recognize this as a proper private key, nor can I import it to wallet (tried electrum). With ID I can import it but it's view only.

I'm pretty sure i copy pasted the key.

So I guess my question is am I doing something wrong? Maybe I didn't copy/paste some characters.  Is 64 char private key valid lenght? Is it possible it's not a key but some kind of hash etc. and I have to decode it first to use?

thx

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