Re: Can you send and receive before the blockchain has downloaded?

You can send coins if your wallet has downloaded enough of the blockchain to see they were deposited in one of its addresses. You don't have to wait until the whole blockchain is fully downloaded.

If you want faster access to your coins you can use the instructions in the quote to switch to using an electrum wallet.

Quote from: HI-TEC99 on June 07, 2017, 03:51:16 PM

If you don't want to wait you can use these instructions for switching to using an electrum wallet. Electrum syncs almost immediately and lets you spend your coins almost immediately. Bitcoin core can take days to sync.

Quote from: HI-TEC99 on May 30, 2017, 09:55:20 PM

Click file, then receiving addresses. Find the address you sent coins to in the window that opens, right click it, and select copy address. Close the addresses window.

Click help, then debug window.

In the debug window that opens click console.

In the text box at the bottom of the window type

dumpprivkey yourAddress

where yourAddress is the address you sent coins to and copied earlier.

Press your enter key.

The private key for that address should appear in the console window. Copy it.

This is an example private key.

L48toSntMVhC2az4KAQCWscrQGfPbT55yCgzM5cmx9Ao69pTdwrq

Download and install electrum.

https://electrum.org/#download

Import your private key into it using these instructions.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients

Afterwards your coins should be spendable.