Recover peercoin, just got my key

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Hi Guys,

So I got Peercoins a long time ago. Someone I don’t have any .dat file anymore or the PC used back then with the wallet client. All I got is a “key” and I think I know the associated passphrase to it.
I just got the peecoint wallet installed. Is there a way I can recover it with jsut that information? Or would I need to have the backupfile from back then.

Thanks so much for any help.

Chris

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Unfortunately you would need that .dat file with your private key. Your public key and wallet passphrase is not enough. Sorry about that.

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What is your ‘key’? Like what form does it take, plz dont actually post the key here.

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Yea I wasn’t gonna post the key. here is what it looks like:
aioha6sdf35416as3v6d4saf454dg1reu425dsf46as4dv165asa445sd4f531dvea7845v68a9

Thanks

Chris

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maybe it is the wrong format, convert to other formats (WIF, WIFC, HEX, B64), can be done on https://walletgenerator.net/?currency=Peercoin# when you click on the tab “wallet details” , but i guess it is better to disconnect from internet first before you enter the private key, or something

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It tells me : The key I entered is not a valid Private key
But it still gives me a private WIF key.

What are my meant to do with the private WIF key to access the wallet?
update
I got the wallet from here: https://peercoin.net/download
I think now I need to find how to import a ‘paper’ wallet
update
Sorry I’m not an expert in this :confused:

Thanks so much fro trying to help me tho!

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i think you should be able to import the WIF key in the peercoin wallet with importprivkey [your key] in the console

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There is a video on paper wallets, which shows how to import them.

The importing part starts at 3m 40s:

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Thanks guys! I’ll try that and let you know if I got it to work :slight_smile:

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I get how it works now but the key I have seems not to be valid When I use it on http://wallet.peercointalk.org/ it will say it’s not a valid key.

I got this key in 2014, back then I must have fucked it up and only kept the public key or something like that. :confused:

Any chance key format changed since then and I can convert that or any other ideas?

Cheers guys