TL;DR - you're probably out of luck....


To anyone else reading this: ELECTsUM is apparently a watching-only Electrum 1.x compatible wallet for iOS; I don't own any iOS devices and have never tried it.


I'm very confused. I can't think of any way GPG could export anything that looks remotely like an Electrum 1.x master public key, so I can't figure out how you managed to do this....


I assume you mean addresses (not that this matters)?


Whatever it is you're pasting in, if you got it from GPG, it's surely not a valid Electrum master public key -- that's why the button remains gray. If ELECTsUM accepted what you pasted in as a master public key, then that sounds like a (pretty egregious) bug in ELECTsUM.


Regardless of all of the above, if you didn't get a master public key from the official Electrum client, any funds you sent to the addresses displayed inside ELECTsUM are likely lost forever

Edited to add: and if ELECTsUM accepts as input something that isn't at least in the right format of an Electrum 1.x master public key (128 hex digits), then shame on ELECTsUM!

Well I just exported my PGP public key from GPG Keychain to a text edit document and then copy and pasted it in the master public key box in ELECTsUM. Yeah for some reason it accepted the gigantic wall of text that is my public key as a master public key. And yes it generated 15 addresses so I transferred directly from LBC to one of the generated addresses.

At this point I had not even brought up Electrum on my computer because I was under the impression ELECTsUM was basically a mobile Electrum. And once I saw my $400 in the ELECTsUM wallet and noticing that I could not transfer it out of the wallet, I became worried. So I opened up Electrum finally when I got home (I was doing this at work), and tried to select where you create new/import and use my PGP public key thinking it would generate the same set of wallets. Well it wouldn't let me use the PGP public key as a master public key on Electrum. So this is when I got worried and flustered.

After a lot of unsuccessful attempts at a bunch of random shit, I realized I was probably fucked. So yeah, the BTC are definitely just rotting in cyberspace right now. The only thing I have is the BTC address of where they are, but that's not gonna get me shit. It was my fault for being a little to hasty and not sitting down and really looking into it as this was my first time using Electrum, but I've been messing with BTC for 3 years now.

But also fuck ELECTsUM for allowing me to use my PGP public key. Oh and best part about it, now when I try and enter my public key in as a master public key on ELECTsUM, it gives me 'blockchain data unavailable, try again later'. And all of the addresses that it generated just say 'undefined'.

This is all I have to look at and cry. https://blockchain.info/address/1NAWzw88R2hhaPsUcmVRe4cEoDK7LxxkTQ

Did you click on the blockchain and look at those poor coins sitting all by their lonesome with no one to spend them?    It's only roughly $400. But also... it's fucking $400.

Good catch, and good point.... it'd be trivial to code up a closed-source app that produced a list of addresses (potentially different for each phone) whose keys are exclusively controlled by the app's dev.