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Rapids4me, how did this all work out for you? I too need to redeem Casascius version1 bitcoin that I've had for a long time. Any additional insight to steps taken, sweeping and cashing in for USD?
thanks
I have a reply to your thread. Basically, you just have to remove the "
p2pkh:" in front of the private key since AFAIK,
Electrum both supports 22-character and 30-character mini private keys.
If it doesn't work, the other option is to manually convert it into WIF.