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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Beginner Issues
by
BitCryptex
on 26/07/2018, 20:44:55 UTC
Now, my problem is that the private key generates another address, not my original one. Maybe it is compressed, if it is, how do I change that? How do I get a working private code out of bitcoin core?

How does your address look like? Does it start with 1, 3 or bc1? It is very important because:

- if your address starts with 3 then you have to type "p2wpkh-p2sh:" in the "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys",
- if your address starts with bc1 then you have to type "p2wpkh:" in the "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys".

Since you need only one specific address, you can type "dumpprivkey
" in the Bitcoin Core's console.