BITCOIN VANITY

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Move your key into a wallet

Choose your wallet below. These are ten widely used Bitcoin-capable wallets, not a popularity ranking. Each guide tells you whether the wallet imports the WIF, sweeps its funds, or needs a migration through Electrum.

Sweep recommended

Electrum

Sweep the vanity key into a normal, seed-backed Electrum wallet. This transfers the funds and avoids retaining a loose key.

Direct import

BlueWallet

BlueWallet can detect and import a Bitcoin WIF directly. For long-term use, move the balance into a seed-backed wallet after confirming control.

Sweep recommended

Sparrow

Use a seed-backed Sparrow wallet as the destination, and sweep the loose vanity key rather than preserving it as part of your long-term setup.

Advanced import

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core's importprivkey RPC works only with a legacy wallet. Descriptor wallets do not accept this command, and rescanning may take a long time.

Migration required

Wasabi Wallet

Wasabi does not provide a loose legacy-WIF import workflow. Generate a Wasabi receive address and sweep the vanity key to it with Electrum.

Move funds

Exodus

Exodus calls this operation Move Funds. It creates a transaction into your Exodus wallet rather than retaining the loose key as a normal account.

Sweep

Coinomi

Coinomi does not import an individual private key into the wallet. It sweeps the full balance to an address protected by your Coinomi recovery phrase.

Migration required

Trust Wallet

Do not import a single Bitcoin WIF through Trust Wallet's recovery-phrase flow. Generate a Trust Wallet Bitcoin receive address and sweep to it.

Migration required

Ledger

Ledger devices do not import loose WIF keys. Receive to an address verified on the hardware device, then sweep the vanity key into it.

Migration required

Trezor

Trezor does not import a loose WIF into the hardware wallet. Verify a receive address on the device, then sweep the vanity key to it.

What do these terms mean?