Hi thanks for your reply
So just to be clear the seller can always have access to the address? So a buyer should not use it to store coins and the seller can maybe take these coins?
So the best thing to do would be to create a new electrum wallet, but use the restore option........ then put the private key instead of the seed in restore function?
Also electrum 2.5.4 does not have an import button.... only a sweep button? how can you import the private key then?
Hope someone can explain....
Thanks
You are correct
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The seller can always steal your coins, or lose the private keys to a hacker, or sell the private keys to somebody... Never hold any funds on addresses generated with a private key that is compromised (this includes bought private keys, web wallets, vanity addresses that weren't generated with the split key method).
About electrum: if i'm not mistaking, you can import private keys when you setup electrum for the first time. If electrum is already installed, go to file -> new -> restore a wallet or import keys
Since i've never done this before, i'm not sure what happens to your existing wallet... maybe Shorena can shed some light onto that?