I’m running bitcoin core 26.0 on debian 12.
$ /usr/local/bin/bitcoin-26.0/bin/bitcoin-cli importprivkey "5-rest-of-priv-key"
error code: -4
error message:
Only legacy wallets are supported by this command
Okay so I can have bitcoin core 26.0 run with an old wallet.dat file, and the priv-key import will then work fine, so that’s nice. But, this works only with old wallet.dat files.
Are there any plans, or is there a widely shared disposition among developers, to stop future releases of bitcoin core from being able to import priv-keys to old wallet.dat files — as is already the case with newly created wallet.dat files — and thus to deprecate the “importprivkey” call completely?
