Bitcoin Wallet v0.8.6 beta

[silverkamote]

In Electrum 2.0, you cannot import private keys in a wallet that has a seed. You should sweep them instead.
If you want to import private keys and not sweep them you need to create a special wallet that does not have a seed. For this, create a new wallet, select “restore”, and instead of typing your seed, type a list of private keys, or a list of addresses if you want to create a watching-only wallet.

[kevinm]

It would appear that that address is empty anyway (and has been since Jan 2014): https://blockchain.info/address/13oxYTF1CDzz63FV6FDMT7xuzpH8TRnYgb

Perhaps your coins are contained in other addresses? You might want to start checking all the addresses that pywallet dumped on a block explorer and see if you can find the one(s) that has your 2.5 BTC

Another option could be to backup the wallet file... and then update the bitcoin client? Not necessarily to the very latest, but at least something after 0.8.6 and see if it is more stable.

Very strange....
The last transaction on your link is a send to:   1EExPs6ykuk7hfHbQZfpdf39cqMuC5LuWL  @ 4.4999 BTC on 23rd Jan 2014.
There is no record of this in my wallet transactions:



I have been through every transaction listed in my wallet and the balance shown is correct, yet it does not tally with your link. The 4.4999 BTC transaction above is worrying??

cheers,
kev

[achow101]

Very strange....
The last transaction on your link is a send to:   1EExPs6ykuk7hfHbQZfpdf39cqMuC5LuWL  @ 4.4999 BTC on 23rd Jan 2014.
There is no record of this in my wallet transactions:

Yes there is, the transaction that you highlighted is that transaction. 1EE... is a change address of yours; the other output in that transaction corresponds to who you actually sent the Bitcoin to as indicated by the transaction list.


Did pywallet work? Your private keys will be 51 or 52 characters long and begin with a 5, K, or L. If you see any strings like that, then you have private keys which you can try to import into another wallet.

[kevinm]

Yes, pywallet dumped the data and there were 200+ addresses each with a list of keys including a "sec" key so I am assuming that is the privkey for each address as each one starts with the suffix you mentioned.

I found my wallet address in among the data along with the "change" address you identified, so it looks like it worked  

So all of those change addresses which are shown on Blockchain.info are in the wallet.txt too?
I am a little confused because I have been through all of the outgoings and incomings recorded in my wallet and the final balance comes to 2.50677 BTC and this is what it shows as confirmed balance. Yet BCI says balance is Zero.

cheers,
kev

[HI-TEC99]

Yes, pywallet dumped the data and there were 200+ addresses each with a list of keys including a "sec" key so I am assuming that is the privkey for each address as each one starts with the suffix you mentioned.

I found my wallet address in among the data along with the "change" address you identified, so it looks like it worked  

So all of those change addresses which are shown on Blockchain.info are in the wallet.txt too?
I am a little confused because I have been through all of the outgoings and incomings recorded in my wallet and the final balance comes to 2.50677 BTC and this is what it shows as confirmed balance. Yet BCI says balance is Zero.

cheers,
kev

I used a website called walletexplorer to check your address 13oxYTF1CDzz63FV6FDMT7xuzpH8TRnYgb. It estimates all the other addresses in a wallet.dat and their balances. You can see the results here.

https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/045bba007c5923b5/addresses

It shows this address containing 0.01229653 Bitcoins as part of your wallet

17LXn6KpumyBbyuz9MyeZ6WVLZwfBpF92s

It also shows this address containing 0.0104441 Bitcoins as part of your wallet

17gKbFaoRjdpDyNKpdBVkqevdKR5kAS3Mi

Apart from that all the other addresses it shows are empty. Do you recognise either of the addresses containing coins?

Walletexplorer only estimates which addresses are in a wallet, so there might be others it missed.

[kevinm]

Thanks very much for that input.
I do not have an in depth knowledge of the intricacies of the QT wallet so I am confused to say the least.
When I used pywallet to dumpprivkey contents to wallet.txt, it gave about 200 addresses and keys. I only ever used the single address for transactions so perhaps some of those addresses listed are "change addresses" as previously pointed out by achow.
Now that I have the keys, I want to sweep them into my Electrum wallet so if I use Blockchain.info and identify all the change addresses from my transactions, I can cut and paste the privkeys from the wallet.txt file into Electrum for sweeping along with the key for what I consider as my main wallet address. I'll give it a go and see what happens     

cheers,
kev

[HCP]

Theoretically, I think you can just attempt to sweep all the private keys and it will just discard the ones with zero balance... so you don't need to go through them all one by one.

Alternatively, you can create a new Electrum wallet using the "Use public or private keys" option in Electrum and it will let you import all those private keys in one go so you can pretty much instantly see the entire transaction history of all your keys/addresses... and what your final balance currently is.

I wouldn't recommend keeping them in a public/private key Electrum wallet long term. I would suggest that after you are happy that you have all your coins, that you then send the coins to an address in a new HD "seeded" Electrum wallet for the added safety that a seeded wallet provides (full restore from just 12 word seed etc). This is effectively what sweeping does anyway.

[kevinm]

OK Success,
I loaded the 218 keys and swept them, the transaction window says there were 4 individual transactions totaling 2504.52489 mBTC. So the default transaction fees amounted to 0.00225 BTC, which is nice  


Thanks for all of the input,
kev.