Wallet issue: 0 balance

arch · October 7, 2025, 2:20pm

So I have a public address showing a positive balance of PPC, and I have the private key to access that address (supposedly). But when I use “importprivkey ” and it completes scanning the balance is shown as 0. I believe the wallet is corrupted somehow, as I’ve seen in other posts. I’ve tried to create a new wallet, but it says only legacy wallets support the importprivkey command. Just trying to figure out how to get my PPC either on a new wallet where I can access it/continue to mint/etc or regain access/functionality of the old wallet.

Thanks in advance for the help.

melissa_m · October 7, 2025, 2:35pm

import the address (watch-only) and verify on-chain coins/UTXOs,
then add/dump the private key for that address (only if the wallet actually controls it),

arch · October 9, 2025, 4:04pm

For more information, here is the public address I have the private key for supposedly: Trezor Peercoin Explorer

I was able to importprivkey on to another computer, but still showing 0 balance and still don’t seem to be able to access the peercoin. Still no solution, any help would be appreciated.

MatthewLM · October 9, 2025, 7:41pm

Are you able to go to the console and type getaddressinfo PGnr8wCPwPGM2LqrmzT8gUhMpCHFcDs8VM. What does it say?

You can try running the rescanblockchain command in the console to see if that helps. You’ll have to wait for the rescan to complete.

arch · October 10, 2025, 2:27pm

I am able to run getaddressinfo. Can I post that info here or should I look for anything in particular in it?

MatthewLM · October 10, 2025, 3:47pm

You can give the result for ismine and solvable.

arch · October 10, 2025, 3:55pm

Both values set to true:

“ismine”: true,

“solvable”: true,

MatthewLM · October 10, 2025, 7:33pm

Does running rescanblockchain help?

arch · October 10, 2025, 9:11pm

rescanblockchain completed and still nothing changed, 0 balance

willy · October 11, 2025, 4:43pm

You could import the privkey to https://wallet.peercoin.net/ (create new seed + new peercoin wallet, then import privkey) and see if it gives you a different result and is spendable

arch · October 11, 2025, 5:12pm

Doing this, it says private key imported successfully, still 0 balance on the web wallet.

arch · October 22, 2025, 7:30pm

Really nothing? I would’ve thought this might be an easy problem to resolve since the coins are still listed on the chain at the address.

MatthewLM · October 23, 2025, 12:25pm

It doesn’t make sense why both Peercoin-qt and the web wallet would not produce a balance. Are you sure the private key is the correct one for the address?

Since your wallet is showing ismine as true for the address, you should therefore have access to that balance.

What output do you receive for gettransaction b0b5e4c2b5c6db3db9667f6983c45468807cc88227073931da45dfbbe508b2d1?

Do you have any transactions in the transactions tab with a question mark on the left-hand side?

Also, can you please confirm you are using v0.15.1 of the software.

arch · November 12, 2025, 12:21am

Sorry for the late reply on this.
gettransaction b0b5e4c2b5c6db3db9667f6983c45468807cc88227073931da45dfbbe508b2d1
yeilds:
{

“amount”: 3014049,

“confirmations”: 89237,

“blockhash”: “462fa90a8dd325da1cfae5067d71a55eb9c1c96c04bec8c31d8d2e1c603f3003”,

“blockheight”: 733334,

“blockindex”: 1,

“blocktime”: 1709307504,

“txid”: “b0b5e4c2b5c6db3db9667f6983c45468807cc88227073931da45dfbbe508b2d1”,

“wtxid”: “b0b5e4c2b5c6db3db9667f6983c45468807cc88227073931da45dfbbe508b2d1”,

“walletconflicts”: [

],

“time”: 1709307504,

“timereceived”: 1709307504,

“details”: [

{

“address”: “PGnr8wCPwPGM2LqrmzT8gUhMpCHFcDs8VM”,

“parent_descs”: [

],

“category”: “stake-mint”,

“amount”: 3.014049,

“label”: “”,

“vout”: 1

}

],

“hex”: “0300000001a85cecfc2a2c7fc7ae5050020a0fe5fa10bf09dafb2437a28f738208514b0505010000004847304402207d6a0f35da50685cf8adb7aacd958b3f502335ac5be714f2436b0aa5d594448302204ab9e8cd15bdcbb59c8412b5e9028858bf50536cd86c367b7fbc9ccbec24c8bf01ffffffff0200000000000000000085560e04000000002321030ff62b218ede9c8122a6abc17e1f35879abaae867ab2e12ba67945981937fbfbac00000000”

}

the about page on peercoin wallet says 0.15.1.0 anisoptera and there are no transactions with question marks, just one recieve and 6 mints (though 3 of these mints have a bracket around the number and it is greyed out)

arch · November 12, 2025, 12:25am

picture for clarity

MatthewLM · November 12, 2025, 12:59pm

Can you please click on the “Transactions” tab at the top and provide a screenshot of those transactions on there? Your last screenshot is on the “Overview” tab.

arch · November 12, 2025, 2:29pm

Ah yes I see there are 3 marked with ‘?’, I don’t care about these if they are what’s causing the problem. Is there any way to abandon them?

MatthewLM · November 12, 2025, 5:15pm

Please right click each and press “Abandon Transaction”. This doesn’t explain why you couldn’t obtain the balance by importing the private key on the web wallet though. It makes me think you had the wrong key.

arch · November 13, 2025, 6:32am

There we go after abandoning the transactions the balance shows up and it looks like I can transfer the coins to a new wallet. Thanks for your help.