Bitcoin-Qt import private key #2684

issue jonasschnelli opened this issue on May 23, 2013
  1. jonasschnelli commented at 10:20 AM on May 23, 2013: contributor

    I just missed the function to import a private key into Bitcoin-Qt. Okay, it's possible through RPC but with pain. :)

    Why not adding a menu entry "import key" (or "import private-key")? There it should be possible to just copy'n'paste a private key string or even import a pk12 file.

  2. laanwj commented at 10:34 AM on May 23, 2013: member

    This is a duplicate issue.

    In any case: the reason this is not in, is that we don't want to encourage people breaching the wallet abstraction by importing/exporting individual private keys (It is easy to mess up and also doesn't combine well with heirarchical deterministic wallets)

    See Sipa's import/export wallet pull request for something that should be supported in the ui.

    What also would be accepted is a "sweep" feature that spends the coins in the given private key to the wallet without adding the key to the wallet.

  3. jonasschnelli commented at 10:37 AM on May 23, 2013: contributor

    Sorry. Didn't looked for duplicates. Close.

  4. Diapolo commented at 3:42 PM on May 23, 2013: none

    @jonasschnelli You can close issues you created for yourself :).

  5. jonasschnelli closed this on May 23, 2013

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