Do I need to broadcast the transaction or am I in OK shape, just gotta wait for the person to confirm? I would post a screen shot but iIdont have anywhere to host it.

Don't dispose of Bitcoin Core for the wrong reasons. Being "huge" makes it not depend on third parties, which is one of the unique features of Bitcoin.
I use both Bitcoin Core and Electrum, they both have some benefits.
[/quote]

I understand. I just happen to have one of those computers that only has 30 gigs of memory on it to begin with. I just purchased an SD card with 128 gigs just because of bitcoin core, but it will work out handy because I've run out of room for windows updates.

With Electrum, I clicked send, entered the address which started with 3EN. And then I clicked Send. However, it remains unconfirmed. I read something about having to Broadcast it? How would I do that?

I just saved it and it said "Note: this is an offline transaction, to send you need to broadcast it"

Oh thank you thank you thank you!!!!  Now I can start uninstalling that huge bitcoin core nonsense!

The private key the console gave me starts with L14, my bitcoin address starts with 3d

Thank you all for the feedback. I downloaded Electrum.

Now, my problem is that the private key generates another address, not my original one. Maybe it is compressed, if it is, how do I change that? How do I get a working private code out of bitcoin core?

IS there any way I can go in the console and type to download my bitcoins to my wallet address off the block?

I know, i've downloaded several others. but I cant seem to transfer my funds and wallet out of bitcoin core because it still says I'm at $0.00 and it will take 3 days to download the rest of the block. I made a huge mistake downloading that app.

I apologize in advance if this is redundant to anyone, but unfortunately I cannot search the forum so I have to ask my question here.

So I downloaded Bitcoin Core. I purchased bitcoins on Coinmama. I created a new wallet in Bitcoin Core, and verified it with Coinmama. Little did I know, Bitcoin Core has to download, now, 200gigs of blocks to display my transaction, because obviously mine is fairly recent.

Now I verified on https://explorer.bitcoin.com/btc/ that my wallet ID does indeed have the funds in there.

However, I dont have the computer memory to support 200gigs. I just went out and bought a 128gig SD just for this, and only THEN found out its 200 gigs.

Now I tried going into Help > Debug Window to try to turn the wallet into a private key so I can transfer it into another app by doing this:

16:52:32 walletpassphrase(…)

16:52:32 null

16:56:52 dumpprivkey "wallet ID in here"

It gave me an alphanumeric string starting with L.

When I tried to enter that into a new bitcoin wallet app called Bither, it asked me for a password. I entered my passphrase from Bitcoin core, yet it doesnt work.

Now my question is, in order to transfer the bitcoins, do I need to have them be delivered to my wallet in bitcoin core first?

Also what can I do about the space issue? I tried pruning, which from what I understand is when you open bitcoin.conf and write "prune" in there. Of course, it didnt work.


Please Help!