Best wallets that allow importing private keys or sweeping funds into them

[OROBTC]

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Paper wallets and devices like the OpenDime (and some cards) are a nice little niche for HODLing Bitcoin.  I have an OpenDime.  But those are not a 100% solution, when the time comes you must have a real wallet to access your funds.

blockchain.info's wallet allows (or used to) one to access funds on the above, but it has been a long time since I did that, and I do not know if more modern versions still allow that.


What other wallets allow one to use the public/private keys of paper wallets (and above variations) to access your BTC?

Also any recommendations?

[ranochigo]

Both Bitcoin Core and Electrum allows the user to import the master public key, addresses or the private keys and has a feature to sweep them as well. Don't use web wallets for anything, especially Blockchain.info.

[BitMaxz]

You are legendary but you still don't know what wallet that you can import/sweep private keys to? 

Your question is already answered above but there are other options if you are using a mobile phone.
Here are the other wallets that support sweeping and importing public/private keys for android phones.

- Mycelium
- SamouraiWallet
- BlueWallet

[nc50lc]

blockchain.info's wallet allows (or used to) one to access funds on the above, but it has been a long time since I did that, and I do not know if more modern versions still allow that.

You can still do that in "Settings Icon->Wallets & Addresses", below the page, there's an "Import Bitcoin Addresses" button, you can paste a compressed private key instead if you want it to be spendable.
You have the option to "Transfer funds to an existing wallet" (sweep) it to your existing wallet or not, if not "swept" you'll have an option to select that wallet in the 'send' page.
But there's a limitation: you can only import legacy addresses, not SegWit or P2SH.

The consensus here is to keep away from an online wallets anyways, but it's up to you..

[OROBTC]

blockchain.info's wallet allows (or used to) one to access funds on the above, but it has been a long time since I did that, and I do not know if more modern versions still allow that.

You can still do that in "Settings Icon->Wallets & Addresses", below the page, there's an "Import Bitcoin Addresses" button, you can paste a compressed private key instead if you want it to be spendable.
You have the option to "Transfer funds to an existing wallet" (sweep) it to your existing wallet or not, if not "swept" you'll have an option to select that wallet in the 'send' page.
But there's a limitation: you can only import legacy addresses, not SegWit or P2SH.

The consensus here is to keep away from an online wallets anyways, but it's up to you..

That's good information, thank you.

An online wallet is useful if you do not want to carry around a hardware one.  The paper wallet / card / OpenDime offer certain special advantages in my case.  Having the option of getting BTC out when, for example, overseas, can be useful in my situation. 

Also good info on only being able to import legacy addresses.  Thanks again.