I utilized a website, bitcoinpaperwallet.com, to randomly generate a Private and Public key pair for Bitcoins storage.
This new Public address is now available for anyone to send bitcoins into. If I want to make transactions with those newly acquired bitcoins I have to open my bitcoin wallet (it my case it would be bitcoin-qt) and introduce this new private key from the console window to be able to access the funds. Instructions for such operation apparently is as follow:
importprivkey 5KsomeCaracteresAndNumers765whichIsTheactuaLPrivKey NameOfKey false
This does not work because the wallet require a PassPhrase. Here is the generated error:
Please enter the wallet passphrase with walletpassphrase first. (code -13)
bitcoinpaperwallet.com did not issue any PassPhrase for my private-public key.
THE QUESTION: How do I enter my private key into bitcoin-qt to get access to the funds ?
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(and wait for a rescan to complete, which may take hours). – Nate Eldredge Jan 10 '19 at 22:19importprivkey ... false
and then after that runrescanblockchain ("start_height") ("stop_height")
. That would be much quicker, as there is no need to rescan everything if you know the relevant block heights. – chytrik Jan 11 '19 at 1:04