191bMotatYJ6DwkexKVeNBKWjqCprkDXt6

Yep, the seedless wallet was the problem.


I wasn't able to run the binary from electrum.org on my old Dell Mini 10v hackintosh which was stuck on OS X v10.6.8.

Wasn't sure if it was a 32-bit thing or just due to the old version of OS X, I ended up just putting Ubuntu on instead. Anyway sounds like the same problem you had.

I tried on Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.8.3 with seedless wallets.

Have just tried on my netbook with a seeded wallet and was able to successfully import the private key.

Ah, yes I was trying to import into my seedless wallet for testing. I have Electrum on another offline computer that has the seed.

If that is the reason it couldn't be imported then perhaps the error message could be improved to be a bit more helpful. At present there is no indication what the issue is.

If I do create the paper wallet then it would be nice to be able to watch the address from my seedless wallet, if only just to see that the coins are still there. Is that possible?

Yep, as noted in my post in the newbie forum I won't be putting any coins into that wallet 

Thanks flatfly.

Hi there,

I'm having trouble trying to import a private key/address into Electrum.  Tried asking on the newbies forum first, hopefully I'm not doing something wrong.

See my post here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199813.0

Basically the issue is I'm trying to add a private key/address generated from bitaddress.org:

Bitcoin Address:
1GEkrLo9F1NGosabvE3SiiP3PjkNsUZmre

Private Key (Wallet Import Format):
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv

But I receive the following error:

"The following inputs could not be imported:
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv"

Screenshots here:

http://imgur.com/a/dqW9Q

Running on OS X 10.8.3, Electrum 1.7.3.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt.

Thanks, will take it to the Electrum forum. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something too newbish 

Hi scintill, thanks for your reply.

Pretty sure there is no bad whitespace added. See this album of screenshots showing what I'm doing: http://imgur.com/a/dqW9Q

Just selected the private key from my forum post again and pasted into the import window. 

Re: the wallet address, as this isn't a deterministic wallet my understanding is that I need to supply the wallet address also? Otherwise the wallet address could be anything?


Cheers,

Matt.

I'm wanting to make a paper wallet so tried generating a wallet on bitaddress.org.  Here's the result (obviously I'm not going to use this address):

Bitcoin Address:
1GEkrLo9F1NGosabvE3SiiP3PjkNsUZmre

Private Key (Wallet Import Format):
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv

I wanted to test importing it so tried importing the private key with Electrum via the GUI and I always get the following error:

"The following inputs could not be imported:
5HpYGkJXKBRk9YgkZFSLgHR9uXsSJUZS4pZm9NHYXjXSE2opMnv"

Is there a specific format I should be using? Also how can I specify the address?

I think Electrum is the best client for newbies - http://electrum.org/

It generates a secret phrase for your wallet that lets you restore the full wallet at anytime.  You can just write it down on a piece of paper, or put it in a text file on a USB stick if you like. 

My understanding is that with other clients you have to backup the wallet often if it is in use for transactions.  Otherwise the old backup will not contain the addresses used for sending you change.

Interesting to go back and read the early posts.

congratulations raze!

hi cloudsurfer! 

I thought you can only get free Ripples if registered to the forum in February or earlier?