Quote from: nc50lc on May 21, 2019, 07:09:57 AM

Quote from: feryjhie on May 21, 2019, 06:59:29 AM

Quote from: hodld0r on May 21, 2019, 04:11:17 AM

i made a bech32 key with vanitysearch and imported the wif into bitcoin-qt 0.18.0 but it ends up giving me the old style with the 1 prefix. i have bech32 enabled as default in the options; if i let the wallet generate a random key for me it is bech32. so how to import a key as bech32 ?

you must import the private key full like "p2wpkh-p2sh:5priv.key" or "p2wpkh:5priv.key"

AFAIK this will only work with Electrum.
Have you tried this prefix method with Bitcoin-qt or Bitcoin Core?

i saw someone who using bitcoin core or Bitcoin-qt and doing this and his address added into their wallet
the steps below

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on May 21, 2019, 05:13:00 PM

It's possible, you just need to use importprivkey command on Bitcoin Core console. I've tried it with example from private key and i got correct address.

Import private key (and rescan blockchain)

Code:

importprivkey L2qvghanHHov914THEzDMTpAyoRmxo7Rh85FLE9oKwYUrycWqudp

Import private key, giving label to the address and skip scanning blockchain to find all transaction correlated to theaddress

Code:

importprivkey L37xBVcFGeAZ9Tii7igqXBWmfiBhiwwiKQmchNXPV2LNREXQDLCp "Main address" false