Sent from Electrum with 6 confirmations but i do not see the sats in my Electrum

[SoyBatManX]

This is the address i sent to
137KFbL7orqq9pR7hh1Fm9raFzaToC3EtV

Transaction ID
113685061c222b3ae5f0f46fef0ba07bf85306c7fce1e86b43aea714802bbad5

The addtess was created with bitaddress.org
On a stand alone computer.


I sent 31k sats from my electrum wallet
It left my wallet fine. 6 plus confirmations

But i am not seeing them show up in Electrum
With show wallet only
Or with private keys

Help?

[escrow.ms]

Is this address visible in address tab?

Most likely it's Address Type Mismatch

Bitaddress.org generates legacy (P2PKH, starting with “1…”) addresses by default.

Electrum lets you import a private key into different address types:

Legacy (1…)

SegWit (3…)

Native SegWit (bc1…)

If you import into the wrong type, Electrum will derive the wrong address and show 0 balance.

[Stalker22]

I sent 31k sats from my electrum wallet
It left my wallet fine. 6 plus confirmations

Since the transaction is confirmed on the blockchain, your funds are sent.  There is no further action required for that specific transaction.  The address 137KFbL7orqq9pR7hh1Fm9raFzaToC3EtV is a valid Bitcoin address, and the transaction with ID 113685061c222b3ae5f0f46fef0ba07bf85306c7fce1e86b43aea714802bbad5 shows that 31,000 satoshis were successfully sent to it.  You can verify this yourself on any blockchain explorer.

But i am not seeing them show up in Electrum
With show wallet only
Or with private keys

This means there is a problem with your destination wallet. As a previous member suggested, check the Address tab in your Electrum wallet and verify if the address 137KFbL7orqq9pR7hh1Fm9raFzaToC3EtV is actually listed there.  If the address is not present, you need to import the private key associated with it to see the funds.

[SoyBatManX]

I got my sats.
Bitadress creates 3 types of private keys.
Base58 starts with 5
52 char base58 starts with K or L
BIP38 starts with 6p

I was importing the wrong one into Electrum
Thanks for the fast help.

[LoyceV]

Bitadress creates 3 types of private keys.
Base58 starts with 5
52 char base58 starts with K or L
BIP38 starts with 6p

I was importing the wrong one into Electrum

Is there a specific reason you're using Bitaddress to import a private key into Electrum? If it's a test to create a paper wallet it makes sense, but if you're not going to do that, there are better ways to create addresses.

[SoyBatManX]

I made the bitaddess a long time ago.
Are they not secure? If no why?

 What are better ways to create addresses in the future?

Thanks

[LoyceV]

I made the bitaddess a long time ago.
Are they not secure?

If you've created it a long time ago and funds are still there, there's no reason to assume it's going to get stolen now.

What are better ways to create addresses in the future?

Segwit addresses would be an improvement for lower fees.

[hosemary]

I made the bitaddess a long time ago.
Are they not secure? If no why?

If your purpose was to have a paper wallet, you have already defeated the purpose by importing the private key into an online device.
A paper wallet should be created on an airgapped device and the private key should never connect to the internet.

Also note that it's never a good idea to generate a private key through javascript. For more information, you can click here and read gmaxwell's post on another thread.

What are better ways to create addresses in the future?

Why not generating a wallet with electrum itself?

[SoyBatManX]

Segwit addresses would be an improvement for lower fees

Lower fees ... where can i learn more about this?

I was just testing, teaching myself by doing.
Only 30k sats. I have already learned a lot from it.

So much more to learn
Thanks for the help

[hosemary]

Lower fees ... where can i learn more about this?

Native segwit addresses start with bc1q and (as stated above by LoyceV) make you pay lower fee for your transactions.

With using native segwit addresses the transaction fee can decrease up to 53%. The exact percentage of the decrease in transaction fee depends on number of inputs and outputs.
For example, a legacy transaction with 1 input and 1 output is around 190 vbytes in size while a segwit transaction with the same number of inputs and outputs is around 110 vbytes in size.

[LoyceV]

Lower fees ... where can i learn more about this?

Start at https://coinb.in/#fees , but know that it's incomplete.

I was just testing, teaching myself by doing.
Only 30k sats. I have already learned a lot from it.

Also good to know that fees can go lower with the right settings. But it depends on network congestion. I'd say just try it: create a new Electrum wallet with bc1q-address and try it. Manually setting fees is recommended (if you know what you're doing).