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Raoul Duke

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Quote from: simpic on September 03, 2013, 07:16:16 AM

How to import change addresses?

See here how to dump all private keys: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2894530
Next you'll import them all into Electrum.
I can't say for sure it will solve the problem, but there is no harm in trying. The change addresses seem to be empty, anyway, given that you say your balance is correct. It's just a cosmetic problem.

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Thank you for your reply, i understand more on Bitcoin transactions.
About my situation, i had 2 addresses (i verified it with "listreceivedbyaddress" command) in Qt client and i dumped both private keys and then imported them in Electrum.
So what's wrong? How to import change addresses?

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Quote from: simpic on September 02, 2013, 02:17:50 PM

Quote from: Raoul Duke on September 02, 2013, 04:40:36 AM

Most probably it's because you didn't import the "change" addresses, hence the wrong values and missing transactions.

What are change addresses? How to import them? Can i still fix this?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

If you still have the original wallet.dat you'll need to dump all private keys and import them all. Unless you want to check all your transactions to see which addresses are missing.

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Quote from: Raoul Duke on September 02, 2013, 04:40:36 AM

Most probably it's because you didn't import the "change" addresses, hence the wrong values and missing transactions.

What are change addresses? How to import them? Can i still fix this?

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: simpic on September 01, 2013, 02:36:41 PM

Hello,
I installed for the first time Electrum on my computer (Xubuntu) and i have imported 2 address belonging to Qt client that i stopped to use.
The import process went fine and the amount of my wallet is right.
But it imported only 8 transactions instead of 13 and some of them are wrong too (different date or different amount).

Please have a look a this image:

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6020/9i3s.png

The red underlined transactions are the missing ones in Electrum (i have them on Qt but i don't have them on Electrum).
The circled amounts are wrong (see the original ones in Qt).

Why this happened? Could it be a bug?

Thank you.

Most probably it's because you didn't import the "change" addresses, hence the wrong values and missing transactions.

simpic

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Hello,
I installed for the first time Electrum on my computer (Xubuntu) and i have imported 2 address belonging to Qt client that i stopped to use.
The import process went fine and the amount of my wallet is right.
But it imported only 8 transactions instead of 13 and some of them are wrong too (different date or different amount).

Please have a look a this image:

The red underlined transactions are the missing ones in Electrum (i have them on Qt but i don't have them on Electrum).
The circled amounts are wrong (see the original ones in Qt).

Why this happened? Could it be a bug?

Thank you.

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: 2048-bit on August 05, 2013, 10:47:42 AM

Where do I find my private keys at in bitcoin-qt? (in GNU/Linux)

In Bitcoin-qt you would only dump 1 key at a time. Use pywallet instead

Install pywallet dependencies(see: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet)
Then:

Code:

mkdir pywallet
cd pywallet
wget --output-document=pywallet.py https://raw.github.com/jackjack-jj/pywallet/master/pywallet.py
python pywallet.py --web

Next:
Open your browser and navigate to localhost:8989
Search the dump keys part and write only "sec" on the export format. Choose a dir/file where to save the dumped private keys. You can then batch import them into Electrum.

Tachikoma

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I know of one method:

Help->Debug Window->Console

dumpprivkey YOURADDRESSHERE

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Where do I find my private keys at in bitcoin-qt? (in GNU/Linux)

2048-bit

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It's probably best then to send the bitcoins to my Electrum wallet, then.

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You could import the private keys from the qt client but the problem is that you will have to keep a backup of these keys seperately. They won't become part of your Electrum seed.

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So there's no way to 'empty out' my old wallet, bypassing a fee?

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You better send all the funds of your -qt wallet to one of the addresses on your Electrum. This way you'll have all your coins secured with your seed.

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I am switching from bitcoin-qt to Electrum. How do I import my existing wallet?

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