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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin Core generates wrong private key?
by
LoyceV
on 18/02/2021, 11:22:48 UTC
import my private keys from the paper wallet one the core has fully loaded . Is this possible?
Of course that's possible: click Help > Debug window > type "importprivkey" followed by your private key.
This takes quite a while.

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I see all your instructions above but am really not very tech savy
For paper wallets with QR-code, a mobile wallet such as Mycelium on Android is much easier.

However:
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cold storage paper wallets
You're talking about cold storage. Depending on the value (and how much money you're risking) you may want to keep the private keys offline, which means none of the above, because all of it could put your funds at risk for malware.
Cold storage with offline signing isn't a non-tech-savy approach though.

After moving your Bitcoins, and only if your paper wallets are old enough, you may still have some Forkcoin value left on them. Don't throw them out yet.