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I am using the Electrum wallet for Bitcoin on Windows 10. I'm able to get the private key of my main receiving address. I'm sure this address works to receive BTC as I've been able to before. I was curious about how private keys can be converted to public receiving addresses, so I tried the tool at https://bitcointools.site/tool/pubkey-to-address and was able to get an address from there. However, it is not any of the addresses listed in my client, and definitely not the one I retrieved the private key for (all addresses in the Electrum start with "bc1" whereas the address I got back when converting from my private key began with "1"). I tried sending a small amount (to test) to the address that I got back from https://bitcointools.site/tool/pubkey-to-address but it's not showing up in my wallet and it appears I may have lost that small amount I used as a test send. Am I doing something wrong?
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