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How to import a private key into Electrum client?
by
matt188
on 09/05/2013, 13:23:37 UTC
Hi there,

I'm having trouble trying to import a private key/address into Electrum.  Tried asking on the newbies forum first, hopefully I'm not doing something wrong.

See my post here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199813.0

Basically the issue is I'm trying to add a private key/address generated from bitaddress.org:

Bitcoin Address:
1GEkrLo9F1NGosabvE3SiiP3PjkNsUZmre

Private Key (Wallet Import Format):
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv

But I receive the following error:

"The following inputs could not be imported:
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv"

Screenshots here:

http://imgur.com/a/dqW9Q

Running on OS X 10.8.3, Electrum 1.7.3.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt.