Sweep paper wallet not working

bitpay / wallet

Bitpay Wallet (formerly Copay) is a secure Bitcoin and other crypto currencies wallet platform for both desktop and mobile devices.

http://bitpay.com/wallet

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Sweep paper wallet not working #6414

Closed feed17 closed 7 years ago

feed17 commented 7 years ago

It says it could not decrypt private key BIP 38.. password is right.. is this glitch in latest update??

balishag20 commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/bitpay/copay/issues/6413

feed17 commented 7 years ago

To fix this, I went back to bitaddress.org web archive.. entered my private key, and password-- then hit decrypt..it gave me a WIF compressed private key that I used instead of my private key in BIP38 Format.. hope this helps anybody stuck!