Hi All.
I just trying open paperwallet in desktop wallet on Mac. But I have error: Invalid private key encoding (code -5)
I have tried exact example from this thread, but it is the same error.
Do you have any thought on reason of error?
Thanks
From what I understand, Emercoin changed address format at some time after 0.3.7, which caused the paperwallet to stop working. I don't know why they did that, if that's right. There is discussion to try to fix the paperwallet for Emercoin on GitHub
https://github.com/MichaelMure/WalletGenerator.net/issues/48The solution seems to be to import your key into emercoin 0.3.7, then move the wallet.dat to the latest Emercoin. See
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362513.msg19914789#msg19914789But I don't know where 0.3.7 is available anymore. The link from maxihatop doesn't seem to work, So hopefully one of the devs will provide a solution.
I think your key should still be valid, just needs the right encoding.