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Topic: Which one is The Private Key? (Read 351 times)

hero member
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July 28, 2017, 07:10:54 AM
#4
are you sure you know what "sweep" means? it is not the same as import

to sweep open your wallet and from the menu select:
Wallet > Private keys > Sweep

then paste the full private keys there and then click the "Address button" or manually paste a new address to give electrum an address from your wallet to send the funds to. and then click "Sweep"

I am not really sure about sweep but I guess it will transfer bitcoin into another wallet.
Sweeping private keys means to send all the bitcoins they control to an existing address in your wallet
I want to export as well but don't know where to find it, and I find out it doesn't support this feature. I am using electrum 2.8.3
In Electrum 2.0, you cannot import private keys in a wallet that has a seed. You should sweep them instead.


I have exported electrum private keys, and it was generated 27 private keys just like :
Wait... you exported the keys from Electrum... and you're trying to sweep them into Electrum? Huh

Anyway, you cannot "sweep" a private key unless it contains some bitcoins (as it creates an onchain transaction that will require a fee to be paid!)... so you need to figure out which of your addresses have coins in them, and sweep just those keys!

You can see which addresses have coins by going to the 'Coins' tab (NOTE: you may need to use "Wallet -> Coins", if you can't see a 'Coins' tab)


Yes, I would like to give it a shot, just try to sweep into the same wallet.
Thanks for your answer, I will check which one of those addresses contain bitcoin and try it later.
HCP
legendary
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Merit: 4361
July 27, 2017, 12:28:02 AM
#3
I have exported electrum private keys, and it was generated 27 private keys just like :
Wait... you exported the keys from Electrum... and you're trying to sweep them into Electrum? Huh

Anyway, you cannot "sweep" a private key unless it contains some bitcoins (as it creates an onchain transaction that will require a fee to be paid!)... so you need to figure out which of your addresses have coins in them, and sweep just those keys!

You can see which addresses have coins by going to the 'Coins' tab (NOTE: you may need to use "Wallet -> Coins", if you can't see a 'Coins' tab)

legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 10611
July 26, 2017, 10:35:23 PM
#2
i am assuming the following are shortened:
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1Hjs               L3oXeAjdgasg5
in which case you should have put some ... or something Smiley

in any case your table is saying it correctly! the column which has strings starting with "1" are your bitcoin addresses and the column with strings starting with either "L" or "K" are your private keys.

are you sure you know what "sweep" means? it is not the same as import

to sweep open your wallet and from the menu select:
Wallet > Private keys > Sweep

then paste the full private keys there and then click the "Address button" or manually paste a new address to give electrum an address from your wallet to send the funds to. and then click "Sweep"
hero member
Activity: 1036
Merit: 514
July 26, 2017, 07:20:28 PM
#1
I have exported electrum private keys, and it was generated 27 private keys just like :
Address          Private Keys    (For Example)
1Hjs               L3oXeAjdgasg5
1Lqhfu            KxcdCdpp
1Bhnk             KwivVniqK
And so on....

I have tried to sweep these private, just 3 of it but none of this works.
Then, try to looking the answer on http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/ but nothing.
How to sweep and which one of those private keys? Should I just input all of the private keys?
Or there is another step by step guide to get it done?
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