[Question] Importing BTC address into a wallet

[SweCrypto]

A while ago I was given access to a small amount of Bitcoin in the form of a public address, the encrypted private key and the passphrase for the encryption.
I never came around to actually moving the BTC into a wallet, and now I've been stumped while trying.

Could anyone explain to me how to decrypt the private key and then how to import the address into a wallet such as Binance, or similar?

I would appreciate it greatly! Thanks.

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[TryNinja]

First of all, don't send anyone your private-key.

Assuming you have a BIP38 encrypted private-key (it should start with 6P...), you can download Bitaddress.org code (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releases) to run it locally, go to Wallet Details, put the private key and click View Details. Put the password, click Decrypt BIP38 and you should see the unecrypted private-key (Private Key WIF).

Download Electrum (ELECTRUM.ORG) and import your private-key by selecting Import Bitcoin addresses or private-keys and pasting the private key there. Then, you can send to Binance (which is an exchange, and not a wallet) or to whoever you like.

[SweCrypto]

Thank you!

I was reading for hours yesterday to no avail, and now it's wrapped up within 20 minutes.

Much obliged!

[MaxKush]

First of all, don't send anyone your private-key.

Assuming you have a BIP38 encrypted private-key (it should start with 6P...), you can download Bitaddress.org code (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releasessito qui) to run it locally, go to Wallet Details, put the private key and click View Details. Put the password, click Decrypt BIP38 and you should see the unecrypted private-key (Private Key WIF).

Download Electrum (ELECTRUM.ORG) and import your private-key by selecting Import Bitcoin addresses or private-keys and pasting the private key there. Then, you can send to Binance (which is an exchange, and not a wallet) or to whoever you like.

Is it quite important? I find really hard to inset BIP, can you provide detailed info?

[mocacinno]

First of all, don't send anyone your private-key.

Assuming you have a BIP38 encrypted private-key (it should start with 6P...), you can download Bitaddress.org code (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releasessito qui) to run it locally, go to Wallet Details, put the private key and click View Details. Put the password, click Decrypt BIP38 and you should see the unecrypted private-key (Private Key WIF).

Download Electrum (ELECTRUM.ORG) and import your private-key by selecting Import Bitcoin addresses or private-keys and pasting the private key there. Then, you can send to Binance (which is an exchange, and not a wallet) or to whoever you like.

Is it quite important? I find really hard to inset BIP, can you provide detailed info?

Is what quite important? Decrypting the private key? In that case: no it's not important as long as you don't want to spend your funds.... If you want to spend your funds, it's not *just* important, it's absolutely necessary since i don't know any wallet that'll decrypt BIP38 encrypted keys for you.

Maybe it's a good idear to clarify your question a bit more, cause i have no idear what subject you need detailed info about.

[HCP]

Let's try with some basics... does your "encrypted private key" start with the characters "6P"?

If it does, you have a BIP38 encrypted private key. There are not many options readily available for dealing with these. The easiest is to use bitaddress.org as suggested by TryNinja in their earlier post.

If your private key does not begin with "6P" then you have have some other type of encryption... what is the first character of your private key?

NOTE: as always, do NOT post your private key anywhere!