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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Merits 12 from 3 users
Topic OP
getting private key from mined BTC for hard fork
by
sdub01
on 19/04/2022, 17:47:53 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,LoyceV (4) ,Welsh (4)
Okay, long story short i discovered a wallet where I had mined some BTC back many years ago.

I am now working to get the private keys out of MINED wallet. 

When I signed up (many years ago, 2010) I got 5 BTC for just signing up.  Yes, you can all hate me. 

I was able to extract the private key in bitcoin core-qt and thru the console get the private key and import it into exodus wallet. (from the btc that was sent to me)

Transaction log showing the 50 BTC.      (I had an extremely old wallet, and sent some to myself which may have created new addresses)

https://i.imgur.com/8YfF9pW.png

When I do this for the other amount of BTC that I mined, I get this error.

https://i.imgur.com/HIdCEeC.png   ERROR I get in Exodus

Is there another wallet I should try.  When I extracted the private key from the "Received transaction" it worked fine to claim it in exodus

Many thanks, and all that.