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Topic: Invalid private key encoding (code -5) (Read 717 times)

legendary
Activity: 2632
Merit: 1023
June 27, 2017, 04:05:32 AM
#4
Do your private keys begin with a '5', 'K', or 'L'?

If it begins with a '5', is the private key 51 characters long?

If it begins with a 'K' or 'L', is the private key 52 character long?

If none of the above, then you don't have a valid private key.

thanks ok now i figured a way around it
legendary
Activity: 2632
Merit: 1023
June 27, 2017, 03:30:49 AM
#3
Do your private keys begin with a '5', 'K', or 'L'?

If it begins with a '5', is the private key 51 characters long?

If it begins with a 'K' or 'L', is the private key 52 character long?

If none of the above, then you don't have a valid private key.

Yes I am fine with that numbers are correct....

its something to do with wif format?Huh

I exported with pywallet
staff
Activity: 3458
Merit: 6793
Just writing some code
June 26, 2017, 11:31:37 PM
#2
Do your private keys begin with a '5', 'K', or 'L'?

If it begins with a '5', is the private key 51 characters long?

If it begins with a 'K' or 'L', is the private key 52 character long?

If none of the above, then you don't have a valid private key.
legendary
Activity: 2632
Merit: 1023
June 26, 2017, 07:10:31 PM
#1
Hi

I am trying to import a private key, and get this.....

what do I do to fix this.

I dumped the keys with pywallet
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