Moving from the Core wallet to Electrum?

[mindrust]

I've gotten sick of the core wallet. It keeps giving errors and downloading useless crap.

Is it possible? How do i do it? Basic cut/paste of wallet file would work or is there a more complicated way? I don't want to transfer my funds directly to the new electrum address because i signed a message 1 or 2 months ago and i don't want to lose my address. What should i do?

[achow101]

I've gotten sick of the core wallet. It keeps giving errors and downloading useless crap.

What kind of errors? Useless crap? You mean the blockchain right? Core needs the entire blockchain, which is most certainly not useless crap.

Is it possible? How do i do it? Basic cut/paste of wallet file would work or is there a more complicated way? I don't want to transfer my funds directly to the new electrum address because i signed a message 1 or 2 months ago and i don't want to lose my address. What should i do?

You have to export the private keys of all of your addresses and import/sweep them into electrum. To do that, go to Help > Debug Window > Console and type

Code:

dumpprivkey <address>

where <address> is the address you want the private key of. You must do this for every single address in your wallet, including change addresses. Then take the private keys and make a new Electrum wallet from the option to import or restore a wallet.

[mindrust]

I've gotten sick of the core wallet. It keeps giving errors and downloading useless crap.

What kind of errors? Useless crap? You mean the blockchain right? Core needs the entire blockchain, which is most certainly not useless crap.

Is it possible? How do i do it? Basic cut/paste of wallet file would work or is there a more complicated way? I don't want to transfer my funds directly to the new electrum address because i signed a message 1 or 2 months ago and i don't want to lose my address. What should i do?

You have to export the private keys of all of your addresses and import/sweep them into electrum. To do that, go to Help > Debug Window > Console and type

Code:

dumpprivkey <address>

where <address> is the address you want the private key of. You must do this for every single address in your wallet, including change addresses. Then take the private keys and make a new Electrum wallet from the option to import or restore a wallet.

Out of nowhere an error pops up, the message says: "a fatal error occured". It happened twice today. Forgot to get a screenshot. I will post one if it happens again.

About the core files, since i don't have to download them when i use electrum, then they are useless for me. Not useless for the network i get it, but me

Thanks.

[mindrust]

Here it happened again. Just after 5mins of opening my wallet:



From Turkish to English:

"Error: A fatal internal error occurred. For details see debug.log."

It happened before too but not like this. This is happening too often now. I am using zenmate, i don't know if it causes the problem but i used it many times before without a problem.

[achow101]

From Turkish to English:

"Error: A fatal internal error occurred. For details see debug.log."

It happened before too but not like this. This is happening too often now. I am using zenmate, i don't know if it causes the problem but i used it many times before without a problem.

Can you post your debug.log file? It may be possible that data is getting corrupted because of zenmate. Have you tried using it without zenmate on?

[mindrust]

Lastest entries:

Code:

2016-10-06 18:17:11 init message: En iyi zincir etkinleÅŸtiriliyor...
2016-10-06 18:17:12 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000002624e1c24df89fda4a2e42fc3c34f59316f860b9a8e1b7f  height=433169  log2_work=85.371737  tx=161141679  date=2016-10-06 16:59:04 progress=0.999975  cache=4.8MiB(6239tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:13 UpdateTip: 2 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:14 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000002a8f2fb82e26e8117308f9d14ac480913b6ac36ea57b112  height=433170  log2_work=85.371767  tx=161143693  date=2016-10-06 17:08:18 progress=0.999978  cache=10.7MiB(10731tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:14 UpdateTip: 2 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:14 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000002988cc5db2ecca0b7bee2b9ae5d5394661406bd288c3442  height=433171  log2_work=85.371797  tx=161146643  date=2016-10-06 17:21:12 progress=0.999982  cache=13.6MiB(16290tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:15 UpdateTip: 2 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:16 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000066ba72ae8ec44860fb66e2aae71c236378efc38ae298d0  height=433172  log2_work=85.371827  tx=161148898  date=2016-10-06 17:22:32 progress=0.999983  cache=22.0MiB(21339tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:16 UpdateTip: 2 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:16 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000268c33338b23fdc82c19280375addc08a89e0d441a18d36  height=433173  log2_work=85.371857  tx=161150810  date=2016-10-06 17:29:10 progress=0.999985  cache=24.8MiB(25649tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:16 UpdateTip: 3 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:17 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000ce9448f8d531c8010d182f4ba8a4206a3b9dadf745dcbe  height=433174  log2_work=85.371887  tx=161152572  date=2016-10-06 17:29:52 progress=0.999985  cache=30.7MiB(30069tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:17 UpdateTip: 3 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:18 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000d5dddbd744b489f2b2b36a26df00df5346faa8f6d831b7  height=433175  log2_work=85.371917  tx=161154605  date=2016-10-06 17:37:29 progress=0.999987  cache=32.9MiB(33158tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:18 UpdateTip: 3 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:19 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000f05eedb9a37494885d0c6eb6cd533a230f245261da3f37  height=433176  log2_work=85.371946  tx=161155670  date=2016-10-06 17:40:18 progress=0.999988  cache=34.0MiB(35117tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:19 UpdateTip: 3 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:19 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000010cf50f198620c245dcf629c5356ed91ca3ceb6245e84f8  height=433177  log2_work=85.371976  tx=161157291  date=2016-10-06 17:46:58 progress=0.999990  cache=34.7MiB(38106tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:19 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:20 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000019db7ce2b54736b963a6a9ce4e3d26c0239f9af4ee8ad26  height=433178  log2_work=85.372006  tx=161158101  date=2016-10-06 17:49:35 progress=0.999991  cache=40.4MiB(39885tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:20 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:20 mapBlockIndex.size() = 433182
2016-10-06 18:17:20 nBestHeight = 433178
2016-10-06 18:17:20 setKeyPool.size() = 100
2016-10-06 18:17:20 mapWallet.size() = 20
2016-10-06 18:17:20 mapAddressBook.size() = 35
2016-10-06 18:17:20 init message: Adresler yükleniyor...
2016-10-06 18:17:20 torcontrol thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 ERROR: Read: Failed to open file I:\Bitcoin\banlist.dat
2016-10-06 18:17:20 Invalid or missing banlist.dat; recreating
2016-10-06 18:17:20 Loaded 2072 addresses from peers.dat  287ms
2016-10-06 18:17:20 net thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 dnsseed thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 init message: Yükleme tamamlandı
2016-10-06 18:17:20 addcon thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 opencon thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 msghand thread start
2016-10-06 18:17:20 GUI: Platform customization: "windows"
2016-10-06 18:17:20 GUI: PaymentServer::LoadRootCAs: Loaded  49  root certificates
2016-10-06 18:17:26 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 37.58.49.74:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:26 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.12.1/: version 70012, blocks=433181, us=37.58.49.74:50664, peer=1
2016-10-06 18:17:26 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 37.58.49.74:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:27 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 37.58.49.74:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:27 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.10.2/: version 70002, blocks=433181, us=37.58.49.74:50665, peer=2
2016-10-06 18:17:27 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 37.58.49.74:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:31 P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.
2016-10-06 18:17:31 dnsseed thread exit
2016-10-06 18:17:31 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000003daeb293ecb5e53a06c73e251514db74821be1bee2364d5  height=433179  log2_work=85.372036  tx=161160422  date=2016-10-06 18:03:08 progress=0.999995  cache=42.4MiB(44026tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:31 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:33 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 37.58.49.76:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:33 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.11.2(bitcore)/: version 70002, blocks=433181, us=37.58.49.76:50669, peer=3
2016-10-06 18:17:33 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 37.58.49.76:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:34 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:34 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.99/: version 70014, blocks=433181, us=46.165.208.231:50670, peer=4
2016-10-06 18:17:34 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:36 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000024225efd5750e1e5a35e1f5f95b8017025cde1bb1f7e0df  height=433180  log2_work=85.372066  tx=161161390  date=2016-10-06 18:05:04 progress=0.999996  cache=43.8MiB(46236tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:36 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:36 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:36 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.0/: version 70014, blocks=433181, us=46.165.208.231:50671, peer=5
2016-10-06 18:17:36 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:44 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000022c4e5de986e464645b79d8e0feb7b767d17556690ff999  height=433181  log2_work=85.372096  tx=161163198  date=2016-10-06 18:12:39 progress=0.999998  cache=50.8MiB(49326tx)
2016-10-06 18:17:44 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:17:48 receive version message: /Cornell-Falcon-Network:0.1.0/: version 70001, blocks=433181, us=0.0.0.0:8333, peer=6
2016-10-06 18:17:49 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 37.58.49.75:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:49 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.0/: version 70014, blocks=433181, us=37.58.49.75:50677, peer=7
2016-10-06 18:17:49 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 37.58.49.75:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:55 ProcessMessages: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:17:55 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.13.0/: version 70014, blocks=433181, us=46.165.208.231:50679, peer=8
2016-10-06 18:17:55 AdvertizeLocal: advertizing address 46.165.208.231:8333
2016-10-06 18:21:59 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000006e94c126c24ca1eccd24ea1979658eabe008ef0da4fabf  height=433182  log2_work=85.372126  tx=161165434  date=2016-10-06 18:21:38 progress=1.000000  cache=53.2MiB(53356tx)
2016-10-06 18:21:59 UpdateTip: 4 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version
2016-10-06 18:23:45 Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2016-10-06 18:23:45 *** System error while flushing: Database corrupted
2016-10-06 18:30:37 tor: Thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:37 torcontrol thread exit
2016-10-06 18:30:37 opencon thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:37 addcon thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:37 scheduler thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:38 net thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:38 ERROR: ProcessNewBlock: ActivateBestChain failed
2016-10-06 18:30:38 msghand thread interrupt
2016-10-06 18:30:38 Shutdown: In progress...
2016-10-06 18:30:38 StopNode()
2016-10-06 18:30:38 Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2016-10-06 18:30:38 *** System error while flushing: Database corrupted
2016-10-06 18:30:42 Shutdown: done

Trying without zenmate now, will report the results.

edit: closed zenmate, now my wallet doesnt open at all. Gives error before even loading the ui. Damn what i am gonna do now?

Edit2: I guess i found the goddamn problem. It is my rams. Closed a few tabs. Now it is fine i guess. even 12gigs aren't enough nowadays.

[achow101]

Well it looks like you have a corrupted database. Try reindexing.

[mindrust]

Well it looks like you have a corrupted database. Try reindexing.

Probably you are right. I deleted 2 block files and now it is indexing everything all over again. i am 4 fkn years away from today now. That's why i hate core wallet. I will move to electrum as soon as possible. Never core again.

[Cereberus]

Well it looks like you have a corrupted database. Try reindexing.

Probably you are right. I deleted 2 block files and now it is indexing everything all over again. i am 4 fkn years away from today now. That's why i hate core wallet. I will move to electrum as soon as possible. Never core again.

Although electrum is a great wallet, Bitcoin core is still better. It's a compromise you make by synchronizing it everyday if you use your PC everyday. I think it's worth it if you have a good ADSL connection which is common nowadays. If you want to switch to electrum for ease of use I can understand. I use electrum my self but only for small amounts, have switched to hardware wallet for my main coins.