Questions tagged [import]
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How do I import a private key into Bitcoin-Core?
How do I import a private key into Bitcoin-Qt? bitcoind is nowhere to be found, and pywallet says it requires "bsddb" when I run it, which is also nowhere to be found. I generated some vanity ...
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How do I import private keys from Bitcoin-qt to Multibit client?
Question says it. I spent 20 mins Googling. Saw several links on bitcointalk.com but amazingly found no solution to this. Am I the first one trying to do this?
Note the following are not the ...
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Why so many warnings about importing private keys?
Blockchain.info and other products make you read dire (but vague) warnings that "you must be an expert" before you can import private keys. What's that all about?
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Why doc says importing private keys is so dangerous?
There are a lot of applications when someone would like to import a private key. However in wiki documentation they say it is very dangerous: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys
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Will I need to keep track of my old private keys forever?
Let's say someone (person A) starts using Bitcoin and in a period of time eagerly publishes some of their randomly generated (eg. by the Satoshi client) receiving Bitcoin addresses on formus, sends ...
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Import multiple watch-only addresses using importaddress?
With the importaddress RPC command it is possible to import one watch-only address.
But how can I do that with, let's say, 100?
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Extract private keys from Bitcoin Wallet
I have encrypted my bitcoin wallet. I know the passphrase, that's not the issue.
I want to transfer my bitcoins to blockchain.info but it's asking me for the private key. I cannot find it nor can I ...
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Can we use a Paper Private Key that has been loaded in the Bitcoin client?
Okay, I want to start offering Bitcoin as a payment option on my e-commerce site. For now, I just want to keep it simply as an option for those overseas customers who don't have credit cards/PayPal so ...
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How do you sweep a paper wallet with Bitcoin-Qt?
Sweeping involves importing a private key, then sending it's entire balance to a new address in your wallet via a new transaction. This would protect your paper wallet's bitcoins from being stolen if ...
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How does ImportPrivateKey get the Address if I don't explicitly send it?
Suppose I just used vanitygen to create this key:
Pattern: 1a
Address: e1aMGYXuGpUwDGH9gz3ZBs8UH746nRdEk6
Privkey: 5KhCszBi22hEZZixPEQkLAMtUVkxbGaxBFsH7a9iefqrxHmSXgH
All I had to do to import this ...
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How can I import blockchain.dat into bitcoind?
I'm getting the latest torrent and I'm running bitcoind on my linux box. How can I import this once it's downloaded?
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Why might MultiBit not show a transaction that was sent to me? [duplicate]
So i recently bought a bitcoin from a vendor , and i had it sent to my Address in multibit.
Now the problem is , the money isn't there and i'm not sure what to do.
He told me to get bitcoin (program)...
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How to transfer addresses from Satoshi client to MultiBit?
I'm trying to take an address from my Satoshi client and transfer it into my new MultiBit client. I have found several questions similar to this, and have tried all their solutions, but to no avail.
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Is it possible to import transaction history from an old electrum wallet to a new electrum wallet?
I see there is an option to export history but no option to import history. It would be nice to keep all my history in one wallet. Thx.
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Can I 'un-import' private key?
I'm checking out the test net and a friendly person gave me access to his private key so that I didn't need to generate coins, so I importprivkey the key, sent me some coins and...
Well, I understand ...
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Bitcoin-qt import private key crash
Importing a private using the debug console causes a crash, I always have to kill from shell the bitcoin-qt app and restart it.
Is there any way to prevent this?
Is there a way to import the private ...
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Are there performance implications using the "timestamp" property of ImportMulti in the following way?
Based on the Developer Reference for importmulti, it seems the the timestamp property is purely used to determine how far back to rescan. If I have, say, 100 addresses and I simply set all of their ...
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Getting keys from multibit to export for electrum
I want to switch from Multibit to electrum. I can't figure out how to make use of the key multibit exports when it does a backup. Electrum and blockchain.info both seem to want something I can paste ...
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How do I import to MultiBit from Blockchain.info?
I have a single password and a yubikey on my account at blockchain.info.
When I try to import the wallet.aes.json file nothing happens.
When I select the import file, MultiBit never displays the '...
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ELI5: How do I import keys from blockchain.info backup into MultiBit 0.5.18
So, blockchain.info is holding my account hostage. My phone with my 2FA was lost (and remotely wiped) and they refuse to remove the 2FA on my account to get access. I have a recent backup of my keys ...
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How do you import Block Chain from bitcoincharts?
I went to http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ and downloaded the most recent build. Then I extracted it and was left with BLK0001.dat and BLK0002.dat. What is the next step? I tried replacing the ...
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Easiest way to collect funds of big lists of bitcoin privatekeys
I am setting up an webstore where you can pay with bitcoins. Therefore I created a bulk list on bitcoinaddress.org. I save the public addresses in a database and attach one to each transaction. Then I ...
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Bitcoin core imported wallet
I have a friend that has an issue with his core: He generated a wallet with coldcard, imported in bitcoin core.. received on both bech32 addresses and nested ones. Lost access to that pc and now when ...
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How can I add an old Bitcoin wallet address from Bitcoin Core to MultiBit HD?
I have a wallet with Bitcoin Core. I have used that address on various sites to receive payments from them. I want to add that address to my account on my MultiBit HD program so it will just carry ...
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How can I export my wallet from blockchain.info to Multibit? [duplicate]
I need to export my wallet from blockchain.info to Multibit, but i have no idea how to do it, can you please help me? thank you
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Converting multiple btc private keys in standard text format to WIP
Ok, going crazy! I have a file that lists my old private keys (2011) (not original wallet.dat, just keys txt file). I need to convert each of these keys (not one at a time) into either a WIP key (...
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How do you redeem a compressed key?
There is very good answer here: How to redeem a basic Tx?
It works great.
But the algorithm is only for uncompressed addresses/keys, how can I change it to deal with compressed ones?
And the second ...
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Would Bitcoin-Qt ever use an imported private key's public key as a future change address?
Let's say I import a paper wallet's private key into my Bitcoin-Qt client. I then manually sweep the entire balance from that private key to a different Bitcoin-Qt private key/address with a new ...
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Issue after importing private key to MultiBit
I followed another question here and imported my address from Bitcoin-QT to Multibit.
The reason why I did so was because I had received some BTC but in Bitcoin-QT it was taking years to download the ...
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How can I import my public key from a mnemonic seed phrase to receive a payment?
I installed Trust Wallet on my Android smartphone. I carefully wrote down the reminder words in the proper order and hid them. I know where they are. How do I use the words to get the key (public or ...
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Having trouble transfering private keys from Bitcoin Core to Electrum, for want of not having to wait for sync
This morning, I purchased some bitcoin for the first time on CEX.IO, and soon withdrew it to the Bitcoin Core wallet I had set up. What I did not realise was that I would have to download the ...
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Importing an arbitrarily created Master Private key to Bitcoin Core
I've created a Master Private key (xpriv) on an airgapped machine along with an Master Public key (xpub). Now I'm running Bitcoind on my Ubuntu server and I want to use my newly created keys on a new ...
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Import a legacy Mycelium wallet from my old phone but see no transactions
I am moving a Mycelium wallet from my old to my new phone, Android to Android.
I have an HD wallet and I have several legacy wallets.
Unfortunately, Mycelium doesn't have an easy way to copy all ...
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How can I import a private-key to Blockchain.info in order to use it?
I recently bought a BTC-wallet from my friend. It has a cold storage wallet ("Watch only") and a private key (which is a bunch of numbers and letters). How can I use it in Blockchain.info? How do I ...
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Which mobile apps allow me to redeem a private key from a QR code?
Which mobile apps will let me scan a QR code of a private key (such as the one created by BitAddress) and then spend the funds from that coin?
Please specify Android, iPhone (iOS), etc.
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Import the seed phrases generated in Electrum
To which wallets can I import the seed phrases generated in Electrum?
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How can I import a binary number with 256 places as a private key into my Litecoin wallet?
I'm not a coder, so excuse the dummy terms:
I have 256 binary characters in 0's and 1's... This is a private key to my wallet... How the hell do I import this 0' and 1' into my Litecoin wallet.
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Import a wallet generated by another website to my node? [duplicate]
so I have a wallet generated by some other website, I have the address and the privkey.
I want to get that wallet imported & all it's previous transactions into my full node, I am using Bitcoin ...
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Help with missing transaction
I'm trying to learn how to programmatically interact with the Bitcoin protocol. I've, seemingly, successfully generated a private key, WIF, and public address with code. I used Coinbase to send .001 ...
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How to import an extended public key into bitcoin core 0.16
I exported an xpub key from a HW wallet and want to import it into my own node to keep track of changes to the balance. My node is running satoshi 0.16.1
Can someone help me find the right syntax for ...
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Does `importprivkey` need a rescan even in a txindex=1 node?
Documentation for importprivkey RPC command has an optional boolean argument called "rescan" which hints that the user may want to rescan the blockchain to be able to see previous deposits to this ...
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Why I don't need to specify public key to import paper wallet
I created a paper wallet on coinbase and wanted to import it to coinbase.com. It allowed me to import it by specifying private key only. I was surprised that I didn't have to specify public key as ...
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Can Electrum only import private keys of P2PKH addresses?
Can Electrum only import private keys of P2PKH addresses (e.g., "17VZNX1SN5NtKa8UQFxwQbFeFc3iqRYhem")?
Whenever I import private keys of P2SH addresses ("...
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import bitcoin seed [closed]
Hello everyone I need to know in which wallet I can import my seed like the one in the next photo which is an example, it is not the real one, I do not remember which page years ago gave me this as a ...
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Why are imported private keys stored to addressbook instead to recieving wallet?
I followed this guide to import private keys which I generated with vanitygen into litecoin-qt.
walletpassphrase yourLongPassphrase 300
importprivkey yourPrivateKeyInWalletImportFormat
But now - why ...
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Paper Wallet: can I use the import option in my case?
I have created a paper wallet and I generated the public/private keys with Ubuntu live + Electrum. Now I have 2 questions:
In this case, can I IMPORT ( instead of SWEEP ) my keys in electrum and ...
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How to use bitcoin core importmulti
I have some keys obtained from walletdump,
13LJXzFwARH5N2bR1AV38Nf9qDVw53PjiB
1BcBMuEJJzEY36PmKWTFmYRxEF3YaSEiKN
1NeZCnuSW9NG8F147VNf8JSLKWGcVexZ32
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how use importmulti with import multiple accounts
i'm use:
importmulti '[{ "scriptPubKey": { "address": ["3M5egggggggggggttttttttttttttttKEDy","18nbE6bEyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyBiu","...
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Selling bitcoin from a paper wallet
I'm looking to sell bitcoin from a paper wallet into fiat.
So far my research is suggesting that a good way of doing this may be to transfer the paper wallet to LocalBitcoins wallet and sell from ...
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Private Key has no fund
I tried to import my private key from the BTC Core Wallet into another wallet because it doesn't work anymore, it says that there is no fund, even if it is 100%, as I can see on the Explorer.
I ...
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