EDIT: Update. There is a method to get hold of private keys.
Firstly I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it. If not, mods feel free to move it where it belongs.
TLDR;Unless anyone can prove how dumb a blockhead I'm in that I can not find out how to export private keys from
The New Blockchain Wallet I would like to warn the community about impossibility accessing private keys created by
The New Blockchain Wallet.
Long versionI've been using
Blockchain Wallet every one and then since February 2013.
It's not my wallet of preference but sometimes in the event of circumstances it turned out to be handy. It's got quite
broad functionality: two factor authentication, importing private keys, signing a message to name just a few but
above all direct access to all private keys inside your wallet. So far so good.
Now sometime ago I noticed there was "Legacy Login" and "Login To The New Blockchain Wallet"
So I still could login to my
old (legacy wallet) and it worked just as before but I was a bit curious about
The New Blockchain Wallet so I created fresh one.
I played around for a while getting accustom to the new design of UI and
I could NOT find a way to get to my private keys.
Well that didn't bode well for controlling funds that could possibly ended up on one of my newly created addresses.
Despite of as lazy as I might've been I decided to contact support about the issue. There is an answer I got:
Thanks for trying out our new web wallet and for your feedback!
You can view your xPubs under Settings > Addresses > Show XPub. You can view
the private keys for your imported addresses under Settings > Addresses > Manage Addresses for Imported Addresses > More Options > Private Key.
If you have any other issues, please don't hesitate to contact our support team
https://support.blockchain.com they are happy to help!
Thanks,
Jamie
Blockchain Quality Assurance Lead
Wow ! I can view the private keys for my imported addresses. Well for me that's obvious because otherwise I wouldn't be able to import
them in the first place but that's not what I was looking for. I wanted to find access to the private keys for the addresses that were created by
the wallet itself.
I contacted them two more times trying as hard and eloquently as I could about the predicament and receiving the exact same answer
each time. At that stage I gave up. I mean I wasn't locked out of any coins or tokens so no harm for me but anyone who is familiar with
bitcoin/crypto world should realize how dire consequences this feature or, to put it more precisely, the lack of it can have.