Is there a way to export the private key(s) from a core wallet in text form, so it can be imported into another wallet?
yes i did it years ago . you can dump the key to an address then import the key.
that is not the hard part.
You're right! Pretty easy.
http://bfy.tw/DC9WMine was a little bit more of a pain to export and import. I thought I would just have to do my receiving addresses but in QT there are all these change addresses that are also associated with your wallet. It wasn't just a simple dumpprivkey <address>. Sure that get the majority of your coins but there are still some change addresses in there. If you do you a dumpwallet "<filename>" and you look at that file there are a bunch of addresses in there to import as well. I might be wrong, but that's what I did. There's probably an easier way too I imagine.
this was a virgin core made a week or 2 ago with only 2 addresses having coins.
so the dump will be easy enough when I bother to do it.
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