Hello Friends. I am absolutely new to Bitcoin having inherited a bitcoin purchase receipt from my father who recently died.
Just the purchase receipt? Bitcoin ATM?
AFAIK, it only contains the information about the purchase like TXID, etc,
Sometimes including the recipient address of your father's wallet but not the "
private key" of that address which is what you need to sweep the bitcoins to Electrum.
But since you haven't described the receipt's contents (
don't disclose the actual contents to anyone), your
answerquestion can't be answered directly.
For now, see if that receipt contains a private key that usually looks like these (
only the 1st character should match):
- L2kG2n5RXfmHeTv3tJRR5ADE6PAgoL55CsLr1KFBwGWr8rBiRZ8s
- KwKT79FJrnnka3f2gKhofX9o7VebRihTJ551WPYeupsoM3rchFSw
- 5K4uoAm3qdspGjoTUwF9B1Guoz55f8x5MMvS9gUgdmJBgQqQvcD
If there is, you can sweep that to your existing Electrum wallet via menu: "
Wallet->Private Key->Sweep".
Click "
Info" button above it to see how you should type it depending on the address type in the receipt.
If there's none, check your father's belonging to see if he left you a set of written words or WIF private keys like the above.
Note: Before doing all that, check if you're actually using the legit version of Electrum (
via this tutorial)
And check if your wallet is a Standard Electrum wallet that you've created yourself with the seed phrase backed-up safely, not a watch-only wallet.
