How export my private key from bitcoin-qt client

Abdussamad

legendary

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You can import the wallet file directly:

https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

But note that a desktop wallet is much better than a web based one. If you can't wait for blockchain to download you can use a lite client like electrum.

To extract the individual private keys from your wallet.dat file you may want to unlock the wallet first:

walletpassphrase

For example:

walletpassphrase mypassword 600

spin

sr. member

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You need to provide the address:
e.g.

Code:

dumpprivkey 19yofyuGveqVMofLhW6dLH36mZuudfEBt1

schnuber

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Hello
I want to transfer my bitcoins from my local bitcoin-qt wallet to my blockchain.info wallet. Since I have slow internet connection I dont want to download the blockchain but as long as I don't do that bitcoin-qt prevents me from spending my coins. So my idea is to sweep my balance into the blockchain.info account. However, in order to do that, I have to know my private keys of my bitcoin-qt wallet in text format. The wallet.dat file is binary. So how do I export my private keys to text?
I already tried the dumpprivkey command, but it says "privat key for address <> is not known".

thx for help

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