I am trying to create raw transactions according to the excellent answer of runeks here: How to redeem a basic Tx?
But there he starts with a private key in hex format
18E14A7B6A307F426A94F8114701E7C8E774E7F9A47E2C2035DB29A206321725
and I have one in base58 given by bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey:
bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey 154G5oUywHU3pESNy4oBBpkmAGqRZiYxBk
KzRVLwCuCi2tH2PpSNZnwUqPwg6gaqXAM2LWobUurzAsNdC5JesE
How do I get it in hex in the right format?
OK, I managed to do it with the excellent bitcoin-tool by matja https://github.com/matja/bitcoin-tool
git clone https://github.com/matja/bitcoin-tool.git
cd bitcoin-tool
make test
./bitcoin-tool --input-type private-key-wif --input-format base58check --output-type private-key --output-format hex --network bitcoin --input "KzRVLwCuCi2tH2PpSNZnwUqPwg6gaqXAM2LWobUurzAsNdC5JesE"
which gave me 5f92519eef7ec4e37cbcd25f9ba4a82e5acf9a8cd274d4d3aa3aa727fd7b6969
as a result.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key Private keys associated with compressed public keys are 52 characters and start with a capital L or K on mainnet. Your second line looks pretty much like a privkey (KzRVLwCuCi2tH2PpSNZnwUqPwg6gaqXAM2LWobUurzAsNdC5JesE), just it is 53 chars long... sure your data is not garbled? Once you have your privkey you'd need the base58check encoding, like provided on Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html which again is explained in the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
