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Issue importing bitcoin from pre-fork paper wallet

Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:40 pm

Hey-ho dev's,

So last march I imported several hundred BCH from an old paper wallet without any issues with the bitcoin.com app. Recently tried doing the same thing on the last bit of my BCH still on those paper wallets, when importing and after decrypting I received the error:

INVALID COIN

And the import did not complete.

I was able to successfully import the BCH using the blockchain.info app.

Cheers

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Re: Issue importing bitcoin from pre-fork paper wallet

Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:02 pm

Hey-ho dev's,

So last march I imported several hundred BCH from an old paper wallet without any issues with the bitcoin.com app. Recently tried doing the same thing on the last bit of my BCH still on those paper wallets, when importing and after decrypting I received the error:

INVALID COIN

And the import did not complete.

I was able to successfully import the BCH using the blockchain.info app.

Cheers
Hi, thank you I'll make sure to pass this along to them.

Also, could you tell us what version of the Bitcoin.com wallet that you're using?

By chance do you know what type of private key it was? -

  • Private Key WIF Compressed - 52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L'
  • Private Key WIF - 51 characters base58, starts with a '5'
  • Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F])
  • Private Key Base64 (44 characters)
Or something else? - en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key#Range_of_valid_ECDSA_private_keys
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Re: Issue importing bitcoin from pre-fork paper wallet

Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:06 pm

private key was generated with bitaddress.org

likely back in 2013, so whatever bitaddress was doing then for paper wallets. Don't have the wallets with me atm, sorry

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Re: Issue importing bitcoin from pre-fork paper wallet

Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:11 pm

private key was generated with bitaddress.org

likely back in 2013, so whatever bitaddress was doing then for paper wallets. Don't have the wallets with me atm, sorry
Thank you for providing this information.
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Re: Issue importing bitcoin from pre-fork paper wallet

Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:13 pm

private key was generated with bitaddress.org in 2013, so whatever bitaddress was doing then for paper wallets. Don't have the wallets with me atm, sorry

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