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Re: My private key doesn't link to my corresponding bitcoin adddress - please help!
by
nc50lc
on 13/11/2024, 04:56:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (12) ,hosseinimr93 (4) ,PowerGlove (4)
The address with the bitcoin balance is a legacy bitcoin address that starts with 1. The address definitely has a positive BTC on it. The corresponding WIF private key is 52 characters and starts with L.
Since you never mentioned the imported address' format: if the imported address also starts with '1';
There's a chance here that Blockchain messed-up the WIF private key's encoding where it should be without the compressed byte flag.
a.k.a: uncompressed WIF private key, starts with '5'.

To encode it into that, you may use various offline tools but I'd recommend iancoleman's compression tool
Link (do not use this online version, read "Offline Usage" below it): https://iancoleman.io/bitcoin-key-compression/
Then use the "Private Key (WIF)" under "Uncompressed".