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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
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Re: Invalid private key error
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 15/01/2023, 09:43:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (3)
Can anybody advise me where am I going wrong and if possible please let me know any reference to gain some information.
The problem is that the strings provided by lionheart78 are not valid.

I don't know where he got them from, or is he just made them up himself, but the WIF key he provided is the wrong length and contains invalid characters, and is not a valid private key. The address he provided is similarly invalid, with an invalid checksum. The correct checksum for that string would give the following (valid) address: 1cDwMSxYstvetZTFn54X5m4GFgztvxDw4