Maza Wallet private key broken

[LutzLange]

I did use this, probably online back in March or April 2014 to generate a paper wallet for Maza Coin. My private key starts with 6y...

This key does not work and I don't have access to my funds on this address. It looks like this has been encoded the wrong way. I need help to find out how to convert the key I have into a working WIF format.

I tried the old releases of the Wallet Generator but have not found a version yet that produces priv keys for Maza that start with 6... they all start with 8 now.

[LutzLange]

It looks like I generated "MegaCoin" paper wallets and this is why I can't access my funds. Is there any way get this right? Can I somehow extract my private key and get access to the address that now has my funds?

[LutzLange]

What is odd is that the address did work to deposit funds. It looks like I have the same problem with the Qubit Coin. This can't be a coincidence. I'm hoping for a chance that just the private key format was off for me. I know that you can get at the private keys and can build correct WIF private keys form import into the wallets. How would I do that?

[MichaelMure]

Mazacoin and Megacoin have the same public address format, so your funds should be fine. What you have to do is to fix the private key to be imported properly:

• open walletgenerator to the 'wallet detail' tab, select the 'megacoin' currency and enter your private key to be decoded
• copy the Private Key Hexadecimal Format value. This is your raw private key
• switch to the mazacoin currency and enter your raw private key to have the detail
• you should get a private key properly encoded now

[MichaelMure]

Please report here if it worked for you.

[LutzLange]

Thought I had this updated.

Your procedure worked fine for me. Thank you so much!!