Hell yeah! It was there, thank you! It just didn’t show that it had balance on my private key list.
Bitcoin doesn't work the same way as a bank account or even as Ethereum for that matter.
If you have 1 ETH and you send 0.1 to someone else, your address will now show a balance of 0.9 ETH - the transaction fees.
Bitcoin has inputs and outputs. Look at your UTXOs as individual fiat money bills. Each UTXO is one bill, no matter the amount. It works the same for 1 BTC as well as 0.0087 BTC, for example.
If you have an UTXO of 1 BTC and you send 0.1 to someone else, that entire sum will be spent in the following way:
- 0.1 BTC will go to the receiver.
- the rest (change) will be sent back to a new address in your wallet - the transaction fee.
After you made the transaction, the whole UTXO got spent, so when you imported your private key, it showed you that it had no balance. And that's correct, it doesn't. The remaining coins were sent to your change address. The private key of the change address would have to be imported to be able to spend the remaining funds.