Importing wallet.dat file to Electrum wallet

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Quote from: gigastar on November 30, 2013, 10:40:05 PM

Thanks for your reply. I don't want my qt wallet exposed to the Internet at all to send the coins. Can I import the private keys to Electrum wallet offline, and then create a watch only wallet from that to go online?

Yes, you can import the private keys to your offline Electrum wallet and then use the command ' deseed ' to create a seedless wallet that you can move to the online computer to make the transactions from there.

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Quote from: gigastar on November 30, 2013, 10:40:05 PM

Thanks for your reply. I don't want my qt wallet exposed to the Internet at all to send the coins. Can I import the private keys to Electrum wallet offline, and then create a watch only wallet from that to go online?

Quote from: xephyr on November 30, 2013, 10:01:03 PM

I do not think you can use an Electrum online watching only wallet with an offline bitcoin-qt wallet. If you want to use Electrum with your private keys in cold storage (offline computer) follow the instructions here http://electrum.org/tutorials.html#switching-to-electrum

Once you have an offline Electrum wallet and an online seedless Electrum wallet just send your bitcoin from your bitcoin-qt wallet to the online Electrum wallet. Hope this helps.

You could import the private keys from your old client, but you will have to keep a backup of those keys separately as they won't become part of your Electrum seed.

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Thanks for your reply. I don't want my qt wallet exposed to the Internet at all to send the coins. Can I import the private keys to Electrum wallet offline, and then create a watch only wallet from that to go online?

Quote from: xephyr on November 30, 2013, 10:01:03 PM

I do not think you can use an Electrum online watching only wallet with an offline bitcoin-qt wallet. If you want to use Electrum with your private keys in cold storage (offline computer) follow the instructions here http://electrum.org/tutorials.html#switching-to-electrum

Once you have an offline Electrum wallet and an online seedless Electrum wallet just send your bitcoin from your bitcoin-qt wallet to the online Electrum wallet. Hope this helps.

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Quote from: gigastar on November 30, 2013, 06:15:01 PM

Hi,

Wondering how I can import the wallet.dat file from bitcoin-qt client to Electrum wallet offline.

I would like to keep my current bitcoin-qt wallet offline and be able to do transactions from my offline computer to my online computer using Electrum.

I don't want to expose my current wallet to any online computers.

Once the bitcoin-qt wallet is imported to electrum, I can then create another Electrum wallet with seed info and send the funds from the imported wallet in Electrum to the newly created Electrum wallet using offline-online transaction . . . is that a reasonable approach?

I am using Ubuntu for offline and a Windows 7 for online computer.

Thank you,

I do not think you can use an Electrum online watching only wallet with an offline bitcoin-qt wallet. If you want to use Electrum with your private keys in cold storage (offline computer) follow the instructions here http://electrum.org/tutorials.html#switching-to-electrum

Once you have an offline Electrum wallet and an online seedless Electrum wallet just send your bitcoin from your bitcoin-qt wallet to the online Electrum wallet. Hope this helps.

gigastar

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Hi,

Wondering how I can import the wallet.dat file from bitcoin-qt client to Electrum wallet offline.

I would like to keep my current bitcoin-qt wallet offline and be able to do transactions from my offline computer to my online computer using Electrum.

I don't want to expose my current wallet to any online computers.

Once the bitcoin-qt wallet is imported to electrum, I can then create another Electrum wallet with seed info and send the funds from the imported wallet in Electrum to the newly created Electrum wallet using offline-online transaction . . . is that a reasonable approach?

I am using Ubuntu for offline and a Windows 7 for online computer.

Thank you,

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