I know it's gonna be a trust issue, but if I were you, I'd ask someone for help with running the scripts. Maybe one of the coders that were helping you. You are running a windows computer, right?
i've ran the script on linux, and it work perfectly to find missing one character with others bitcoin private key.
The issue is my key written on paper just simply doesn't work out as expected , no ideas where gone wrong...hehe
Well, if you did this:
- generated a new private key
- removed 1 character
- ran it trough kn_b_y's script
- got some valid private keys back, imported them, worked ok
But you cannot run the private key you have on paper trough the same script (0 outputs), chances are pretty high the string you have on paper isn't correct to begin with
A private key in WIF is indeed 51 characters (if i'm not mistaking), so i'm finding it a bit odd...
you say you:
- generated a private key with bitaddress (i can only assume that's the online bitaddress.org, or maybe the downloaded sourcecode)
- if i'm not mistaking, bitaddress gives you a Private Key WIF Compressed (52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L')
- since your private key starts with a 5, you might have clicked on 'wallet details', so you can see the private key wif compressed, private key wif (51 characters, starts with 5), Private Key Hexadecimal Format and Private Key Base64
- To begin with, i find it odd that you would have saved the private key wif, instead of the private key wif compressed (since that's the default one)
- are you sure you already imported in in a wallet like that?