Electrum Private Key

[Flanagan]

Guys , need your help urgently, please. I have downloaded electrum 2.9.0 portable for Windows(since standrat exe version crashes after launch). When i was creating a wallet i only entered password for wallet encryption, no seed, no 2fa was shown to me.
Right now, i have moved all my coins from exchange to my electrum portable wallet and i am unable to export private keys.

I tried doing Wallet -> Private Keys -> Export {enter password}, but after i enter password nothing happens. No files in my electrum wallet dir.

There are 6 different addresses for all my btc holdings. What do i do now to be safe for 1 August and to be sure i get my BCC with private keys? Do i need to download another wallet that is capable of giving me my private keys ?

I have read a warn announce about moving BTC before importing private keys to BCC wallets, thanks a lot for that tip. Is that true ? Where can i read about replay protection ?

I know of the desktop version in Linux that when you first create a wallet you always are given a random series of words, which I think is called the wallet seed, and you are asked to enter them again before the next step which is you creating a password which you will need to use when you want to do anything with the wallet. If this hasn't happened in your mobile version you will need to look into the FAQ at the Electrum site and also the section on these forums for Electrum. But you SHOULD have that seed, that series of words which allows you to recover your wallet from scratch in case you delete the wallet file.

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[HCP]

I thought electrum will support BCC and BTC at the same time and storing my bitcoin there will guarantee the safety of my assets. I only save my seed for my wallet. Is there a chance that my BTC will stuck in my electrum wallet??

No... ThomasV put support in Electrum for multiple forks... but BCC devs put replay protection in BCC network that effectively makes it IMPOSSIBLE to generate a transaction in Electrum that will broadcast on BCC network. The transactions need to be made in a different way. ThomasV does not want to include BCC funtionality in Electrum: https://electrum.org/bcc.txt

There is no chance that your BTC will be stuck in Electrum. It will continue to operate properly with BTC.

If you want to get BCC, you need to get a BCC wallet and use your seed/private keys there... but I would suggest you follow ThomasV's suggestion and move all your BTC to a new seed/private keys first, and use your OLD seed/private keys in BCC wallet (just in case BCC wallet is "bad"™ and tries to steal your seed/private keys): https://electrum.org/bcc2.txt

[shakeyman]

Did anybody succeed in claiming the BCC so far??

I didn´t manage to do so
Here´s what I did.

- Waited till the fork was confirmed.
- Moved all my BTC from exodus to another wallet to keep them safe (waited for at least 10 confirmations)
- exported the private key from the exodus wallet
- installed bitcoin abc -> downloaded the whole blockchain which took 24h
- imported my private exodus key via console (importprivkey)
- waited another 30mins
- there are just transactions found before august 1st
- my balance is 0 bcc

any idea what to do?
Tried electron cash as well didn´t work

[HCP]

Then you don't have the correct private key(s)... When you moved all the BTC from exodus to another wallet... you should be able to see the Public Address(es) that controlled the coins that were used as input(s) to that transaction.

If the private key(s) that you are attempting to import are NOT the key(s) matching the Public Address(es) used in that transaction, then your BCC will not show up.

Also, you might like to check the input addresses here: http://blockdozer.com/insight/ or here: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/blocks and see if the BCC is still showing as being associated with the addresses.

Finally, what block did your BTC transaction get confirmed in? It needed to be in block 478559 or later.

[russianjohn]

So, does the export of private keys work? I click export, inter password and nothing happens. I use last version Electrum portable on Windows 10. One month ago everything worked.

[2dMoond]

Hey , guys!
Does anyone know how to export private key from Electrum OFFLINE wallet?
I can easily dump all 26 pre-generated addresses, but not the one that BTC is currently stored. Had many transaction already...

[HCP]

You need to force Electrum to generate addresses until you find the want you want...

In the console tab ("View -> Show console") try the following command:

Code:

for x in range(0, 10): print(wallet.create_new_address(False))

That will generate another 10 "receive" addresses... if you don't see the address you need/want, then try:

Code:

for x in range(0, 10): print(wallet.create_new_address(True))

That will generate another 10 "change" addresses... if you still don't see the address you need/want, then alternate between the "False" and "True" commands until you find it (or change the number to 100 to bulk generate addresses! )

[2dMoond]

You need to force Electrum to generate addresses until you find the want you want...

In the console tab ("View -> Show console") try the following command:

Code:

for x in range(0, 10): print(wallet.create_new_address(False))

That will generate another 10 "receive" addresses... if you don't see the address you need/want, then try:

Code:

for x in range(0, 10): print(wallet.create_new_address(True))

That will generate another 10 "change" addresses... if you still don't see the address you need/want, then alternate between the "False" and "True" commands until you find it (or change the number to 100 to bulk generate addresses! )

WOW! It worked out! Thanks for such a brilliant answer.
Give me please a console command to dump a privkey of a certain wallet address.

[Abdussamad]

it would be easier to just right click on the address on the addresses tab and choose the option to view the private key. if the addresses tab isn't visible go to view menu > show addresses.

you can search for the address on the addresses tab using ctrl+f

[bob123]

Give me please a console command to dump a privkey of a certain wallet address.

After you have generated all the addresses which have a balance,
you can use this (slightly more elegant) command to dump all the private keys which contain some coins:

Code:

dumpprivkeys( map(lambda x:x.get('address'), listunspent()) )