How to open a legacy wallet on btc core to import uncompressed private key
Question
I have uncompressed hex 64 Char private key from 2009. While using importprivkey function btc core 27.0.0 keeps returning with code -4 error. How do I bypass it?
Answer 1
I think you could do one of the following
- Use importdescriptor.
- create a new legacy wallet and then use importprivkey.
These are not complete descriptions of solutions but are intended to give some directions to explore.