Got sent btc to armory wallet while it was offline.

[dog7518]

Basically,
i wanted a simple bitcoin wallet, to send and receive bitcoin fast.
My mistake was that i didn't realize, you had to make armory go into online mode before receiving or sending btc.

So i got sent 30$ in btc to the armory wallet, except now i can't see the transaction or anything.

I am currently downloading blockchain from bitcoin core.
But i only have 57gb free space on my pc and i just started it.

I honestly just want the btc at this point, my internet is also very very slow so it doesn't help.

Anyway to access the btc without having to download the blockchain??

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[hosseinimr93]

Anyway to access the btc without having to download the blockchain??

You can export your private key and import it into a SPV wallet like electrum.
In SPV wallets, you don't have to download the blockchain.

For exporting your private key(s) from Armory, you can follow the guide the provided by HCP. (Click here)
In electrum, create a new wallet, select "Import bitcoin addresses or private keys" and then enter your private keys.

Warning:
Download electrum only from its official website and do not forget to verify your download.

[dog7518]

yeah did some research and found this, honestly thank god for this forum, i was already having a bad day then to add i had to go and download 300gb with 1mb/s download speed and 50gb disk space, thanks a lot

[HCP]

Given you only had 50Gigs of free disk space, I assume you were running Bitcoin Core in "pruned" mode. Unfortunately, Armory requires a fully synced, unpruned node to get online and work properly.

So, even if you had downloaded all 300Gigs, you would still not have been able to get Armory online to recover the coins with your current setup.

Do as hosseinimr93 said and export your private keys following my old guide. Given you've only received one transaction, you can easily find the correct private key by also ticking the "address string" box in the Armory export window and finding the private key that matches the address that you sent the coins to (likely the first one in the list).

[CSTEK7148]

Anyway to access the btc without having to download the blockchain??

You can export your private key and import it into a SPV wallet like electrum.
In SPV wallets, you don't have to download the blockchain.

For exporting your private key(s) from Armory, you can follow the guide the provided by HCP. (Click here)
In electrum, create a new wallet, select "Import bitcoin addresses or private keys" and then enter your private keys.

Warning:
Download electrum only from its official website and do not forget to verify your download.

sorry if this is a bad question, but I followed all of the steps, and after exporting my keys (I followed every step to a T) and pasting them, it still won't let me proceed. there is a "back" option, and a grayed out "next" option. what should I do? Apologies in advance for asking a dumb IT question

[hosseinimr93]

You'll probably need to click Options and select Bip39, like in this image:

I don't think that's the problem. Armory doesn't support seed phrase at all and CSTEK7148 should deal with private key(s).

To CSTEK7148:
You have probably imported a wrong private key.

Look at the image below.
You should copy-paste the key in front of PrivBase58. Nothing more and nothing less.

[nc50lc]

sorry if this is a bad question, but I followed all of the steps, and after exporting my keys (I followed every step to a T) and pasting them, it still won't let me proceed. there is a "back" option, and a grayed out "next" option. what should I do? Apologies in advance for asking a dumb IT question

'Next' in Electrum is grayed-out because you've pasted an invalid private key in there.
Probably what hosseinimr93 has pointed-out or there's still spaces.

Another possible issue is, you might have selected the wrong option when creating a new 'imported' Electrum wallet.
You have to select "Import bitcoin addresses or private keys" instead of standard wallet.

[hosseinimr93]

............or there's still spaces.

As shown in the following image, even if there are extra spaces in the private key you import, that shouldn’t be a problem and electrum would still allow you to click on "Next" button.
In that case, electrum would ignore the spaces and creates the wallet.