Question About Private Key?

[mutsuz]

Hey, I have been collecting donations with 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU adress. My wallet is Electrum and aıtomatically generated 26 wallet adress. Should I only get private adress for 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU or every other adress (I only use 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU)

Thank you.

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[LoyceV]

Hey, I have been collecting donations with 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU adress.

This address has never received Bitcoin, is that correct?

My wallet is Electrum and aıtomatically generated 26 wallet adress. Should I only get private adress for 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU or every other adress (I only use 1Asyt8UhnJjyGTriRwxwZfYp44V7eJLPHU)

What are you trying to accomplish? For normal Bitcoin use, you don't need to get the private key. If all went well, you wrote down the (12?) seed phrase words when you installed Electrum. That's all you need to keep safe as a backup.
You can export the private key if you need it for something, and in that case you don't need the private keys for unused addresses.

[mutsuz]

Yes no one donated it but I want to get private keys since I could want to switch to another wallet.

[Rath_]

Yes no one donated it but I want to get private keys since I could want to switch to another wallet.

Actually, it's quite easy. Go to Wallet -> Private keys and select Export. This will show different private key for each of your addresses.



If you want to export your Master Private Key from which it is possible to generate all of your addresses then you have to do a few more things.

Go to View and select Show Console



All you have to do is to input "getmasterprivate()" and then you will be able to copy your Master Private Key.



Do you have the 12 words which you were given while you were creating your wallet? They can be also used for wallet recovery and this might be actually more convenient than the process described above.

[mutsuz]

Yes, I added 1 more word to seed. Will it still work?

[Rath_]

Yes, I added 1 more word to seed. Will it still work?

Yes, an additional word is called a passphrase and it should be supported by every wallet which allows you to import your seed. Electrum is a good software wallet - I don't really think if you will replace it with something else unless you decide to buy a hardware wallet.

[mutsuz]

Thank you sirs. Thread can be locked.

[LoyceV]

Thread can be locked.

You can do that by yourself, click "lock" on the lower-left.