How to move bitcoins from one wallet to another without sending payment?

[VolcanoX9]

Electrum is down as a result of a massive DoS attack. Is it possible to recover my wallet using the master seed OR by exporting the private keys to any of the following wallets:

• BitPay Wallet
• Copay Wallet
• BTC.com Wallet
• Mycelium Wallet
• Bitcoin.com Wallet

Thank you for your responses!

[cissrawk]

Mycelium should work, just import seeds or private key and you can have control to your bitcoin.

[VolcanoX9]

I couldn't figure out how to do it. I exported the private keys from Electrum, but I need help on Mycelium side..

[cissrawk]

I couldn't figure out how to do it. I exported the private keys from Electrum, but I need help on Mycelium side..

Just install it in your phone and open it, choose "Restore backup" and select how much your word list and write it down.
If you backup it from private key, afaik you must create new first, and then go to option in top right corner(something like 3 dot, near refresh symbol) and choose cold storage. The clipboard will be gray, but if you copied it, it will be blue and just click it or scan it if you have qr code for your private key.

[webtricks]

Electrum is down as a result of a massive DoS attack. Is it possible to recover my wallet using the master seed OR by exporting the private keys to any of the following wallets:

• BitPay Wallet
• Copay Wallet
• BTC.com Wallet
• Mycelium Wallet
• Bitcoin.com Wallet

Thank you for your responses!

If you finding it difficult to import your wallet to any of the above. Use blockchain.com. Simply create a new wallet and then login to your wallet. Then from left menu select Settings. Within Settings, select 'Wallets & Addresses' from sub-menu. Then click '+ Import Bitcoin Address'.
After this, you will see two options to import wallet, 'Address generated outside this wallet and address generated in this wallet'. Select outside option and paste your private key. Your Bitcoin address will be added to your blockchain.com wallet and you can use it simultaneous to your web wallet.

[Herbert2020]

always remember that just because some website like ccn publishes something it doesn't mean it is correct. majority of these sites are only creating clickbait nonsense to increase their traffic.

Electrum is down as a result of a massive DoS attack.

Electrum is not a centralized server to go down. there are many individual bitcoin nodes with specific setting for Electrum, someone has been targeting these nodes so they are less responsive lately but it is not completely "down". you still can connect to some of the nodes and sync.
i just did it right now, it took about 15 seconds to find servers and sync without an issue. give it a try yourself and then trust the bullshit articles you read online.

Is it possible to recover my wallet using the master seed OR by exporting the private keys to any of the following wallets:

it will not work using your "seed" because no other wallet is compatible with Electrum. and also remember that if you imported your seed, master private key or any single private key in any of those wallets specially the closed sourced ones be sure that your Electrum wallet is going to be compromised.

[Zadicar]

According to their tweet its not totally down.

Electrum servers are currently under a DoS attack. We are working on a more robust version of the electrum server. In the meantime, affected users should disable auto-connect, and select their server manually

I dont have any issues at all yet you can still connect there might be some slight less response same as said above.

[stevegee58]

What I ended up doing was wait 5 minutes until it connected, then turned off the checkbox to automatically select a server.  That way I always use the "good" server I found.

[sunsilk]

I believe that this kind topic should be on Wallet Software under the child board of Electrum.

[BitMaxz]

I don't recommend to use the wallet listed above except mycelium.
You can also try to use coinb.in if you have a backup private key, just make sure you are offline when pasting your private key when signing.

Also, check this one below for a temporary solution for syncing issue just make sure that Electrum shows your balance bottom left of the Electrum.
Here's the link [Guide]How to make safe transaction using Electrum and broadcast it to Coinb.in.

Electrum wallet right now is working fine without syncing issue it seems the DDOS attack is solved.

So you don't need to use other wallets.

[elda34b]

If you finding it difficult to import your wallet to any of the above. Use blockchain.com.

I wouldn't do this tbh. Exposing your private key to the online wallet (though it is claimed to be safe) is not really good practice, especially if you use the address to store a lot of your savings. I'd rather learn to import on Mycelium or maybe wait patiently before I can connect to one of the good servers that still functions properly.

[bitcoinitywar]

Electrum is down as a result of a massive DoS attack. Is it possible to recover my wallet using the master seed OR by exporting the private keys to any of the following wallets:

• BitPay Wallet
• Copay Wallet
• BTC.com Wallet
• Mycelium Wallet
• Bitcoin.com Wallet

Thank you for your responses!

Well, the only wallet that I used most often was Multibit.hd and Electrum. And so far honestly speaking, I never face any circumstances to have an issues like yours. ti is so far so good actually as long as you are sure what you are doing about it.

[traderethereum]

As long as you have the private keys, you only need to install mycelium in your phone, and you can get your bitcoin balance on mycelium.

Maybe I can give some image for you.


Then Clik Restore Backup


Choose the 12 Words or 18 Words or 24 Words and don't forget to check the "I have a Passphrase"


Type your Passphrase

After that, it will start to synchronize to the network. That is what I did when I move my bitcoin balance from the old phone to the new phone.

[Pursuer]

[..snip..]
Choose the 12 Words or 18 Words or 24 Words and don't forget to check the "I have a Passphrase"
[..snip..]
Type your Passphrase

OP is talking about an Electrum wallet not any kind of BIP39 seed phrase. this means you can't import your seed words generated by Electrum by default into another wallet like mycelium because they won't recognize it.

as for "Password" it is NOT for encryption or anything like that. it is used for extending your seed which is a completely different thing. in short if you enter a password in this option in your picture which I snipped, you will get a completely different list of addresses.

[Kakmakr]

Do not take desperate measures like this, based on FUD that are being spread in the media. Simply take off the tick next to "select server automatically " and chose your own server manually. These people are not attacking all the servers and you will quickly find a server to connect to.  

Click Tools --> Network ----> Server and remove the tick next to select server automatically and then go down to default servers and chose one by one, until you get a server that connects and it will sync your wallet.  

Very important : Only use the latest version of Electrum!

Also only upgrade to the latest version of Electrum, by downloading it from the official sources :

Electrum's website is electrum.org

The github repo is https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

[The Cryptovator]

If you are holding private key then you will able to move your fund from any other wallet. Perhaps you can import private key on bitcoin core. There is a link upper left on this forum you can download it from there. Here is complete guideline how to import, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki. I think this is the best and safer. You might use Blockchain web wallet but I will not recommend you, because this is third party wallet. You bitcoin can be stolen if they found your private key.

However I would like to suggest for patience. Import private key isn't really safe in my opinions. Better you can wait till fix the issue by Electrum.

[Crypto Girl]

OP is quite alarm with the FUD that of course baseless and jump into it without thinking if this is really true. I understand that he cares for his fund but panic wouldn't help though. I just used my electrum and within a minute it sync without the use of any.

Click Tools --> Network ----> Server and remove the tick next to select server automatically and then go down to default servers and chose one by one, until you get a server that connects and it will sync your wallet. 

Usually how many connection/server do we need for it?

[Bitinity]

Electrum is down as a result of a massive DoS attack. Is it possible to recover my wallet using the master seed OR by exporting the private keys to any of the following wallets:

• BitPay Wallet
• Copay Wallet
• BTC.com Wallet
• Mycelium Wallet
• Bitcoin.com Wallet

Thank you for your responses!

Are you in a hurry to use your bitcoin? If not, it is better to wait till the issue is solved. Electrum is still OK to be used at the moment though, just do what is suggested by electrum official twitter account. Disable the auto-connect and select server manually. So I do not think you need to move your bictoin to other wallet.

[Kakmakr]

OP is quite alarm with the FUD that of course baseless and jump into it without thinking if this is really true. I understand that he cares for his fund but panic wouldn't help though. I just used my electrum and within a minute it sync without the use of any.

Click Tools --> Network ----> Server and remove the tick next to select server automatically and then go down to default servers and chose one by one, until you get a server that connects and it will sync your wallet. 

Usually how many connection/server do we need for it?

You only need to connect to one to sync the wallet, but there are several to choose from. You can have a look at this Reddit post for more details and which servers to try ->>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bakqhw/electrum_servers_are_under_ddos_by_a_large_botnet/

Remember, Social media is the cancer of this world, because people can spread baseless information without fact checking and this wrong information can go viral in minutes.