Hi,
I wanted to buy some BitcoinCash quickly through an exchange with bitcoin as the source... Usually I'd use my hardware wallet for the destination address, but I didn't have it handy, and decided I'd temporarily use a wallet that I'd create on a web site such as bitaddress.org, and then transfer to the hardware wallet when I get back home.
I do not remember which web site I used to create the temporary wallet. When I created it, I copy-pasted the private key to a local file (or at least I think I did
), thinking I could then import the private key later into a client to access the BCH.
The problem is that I think I pasted the wrong information ??!? I tried multiple BitcoinCash wallets, and whenever I try to import the private key, it doesn't work (I either get a "key not valid" message, or the wallet interface doesn't let me continue the import process (the "next" button is grayed out for example).
I've googled this a bit, it seems that keys would start with an L or a K, and have 52 characters ?
The thing I've pasted has 66 characters, only lowercase letters + numbers, and starts with 00 (zero zero).
Have I lost my btc, or is my 66-character thing really an encrypted version of my private key ?