<p>In order to operate your bitcoins you need two things, your public and private key for your BTC address. You can export them from the bitcoin core wallet.</p>

<p>There is two types of wallets - ones that require you to download the whole blockchain locally and others that uses someone else server to run checks on the blockchain.</p>

<p>Here is list with wallets <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet</a></p>

<p>You can use Electrum to import your keys and use them right away without waiting for sync.</p>

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<p>I use bitcoin core and the thing is still syncing after a week and a bit.
I received btc into the account and the transaction was confirmed over 150 times.
Can I move these funds to another wallet with the wallet.dat or is there any alternative or something I can do besides sitting through this sync process? Is there any one I can contact about this? I don't think my computer has 140gb spare space :L.</p>

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BitcoinCore wallet still 3 years in sync, funds in account
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# BitcoinCore wallet still 3 years in sync, funds in account

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-25)

I use bitcoin core and the thing is still syncing after a week and a bit.
I received btc into the account and the transaction was confirmed over 150 times.
Can I move these funds to another wallet with the wallet.dat or is there any alternative or something I can do besides sitting through this sync process? Is there any one I can contact about this? I don't think my computer has 140gb spare space :L.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-25. Score: 1

In order to operate your bitcoins you need two things, your public and private key for your BTC address. You can export them from the bitcoin core wallet.

There is two types of wallets - ones that require you to download the whole blockchain locally and others that uses someone else server to run checks on the blockchain.

Here is list with wallets <https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet>

You can use Electrum to import your keys and use them right away without waiting for sync.


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