How I Finally Got My Airdrop Coins Into My Main Decred Wallet

First a little history of what happened to me...

I thought my hash rate was to low to get any significant coins by mining, so before I even attempted to get the airdrop coins, I created a new wallet and bought some DCR from the exchanges.

After I got all the coins I wanted to purchase, I was looking into getting my Airdrop coins. I could see them in the block explorer, but didn't know how to do it. Scanning the threads, I tried to use the web wallet, but it still says 0 balance. I noticed that even though I used my seed, it created a new first address.

@ceejep showed me the command how to create another wallet on my windows machine.

Here is how I finally got my Airdrop Coins into my Main Decred Wallet. Note, I'm doing this on Windows.

• Get a new address from your main wallet (you will need it later)
• Make a new folder for your wallet:

Code:

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop

• Create Your Airdrop Wallet:

Code:

dcrwallet.exe --create --datadir "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop" --logdir "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop

• Start your Airdrop Decred Wallet:

Code:

dcrwallet.exe -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --datadir "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop" --logdir "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop

• Unlock Airdrop Decred Wallet: (Note you will always have to use the rpc.cert in the new folder or dcrctl will not work)

Code:

dcrctl -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --rpccert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop\rpc.cert" --wallet walletpassphrase "Do not use this passphrase or you will be robbed" 0

• Get balance of Airdrop Decred Wallet: (You will need this for the transfer)

Code:

dcrctl -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --rpccert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop\rpc.cert" --wallet getbalance

• Find the paytxfee: (You will have to subtract this from your sendtoaddress amount)

Code:

dcrctl -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --rpcert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop\rpc.cert" --wallet getinfo

{
  "version": 100,
  "protocolversion": 1,
  "walletversion": 4,
  "balance": 282.63795424,
  "blocks": 884,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 3,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 163557.62187443,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1455162158,
  "keypoolsize": 0,
  "unlocked_until": 0,
  "paytxfee": 0.05,
  "relayfee": 0.05,
  "errors": ""
}

• Send the DCR minus the "paytxfee" to your new address you created for your main wallet earlier:

Code:

dcrctl -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --rpccert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop\rpc.cert" --wallet sendtoaddress "DXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXy" 282.????????

• Check your balance again on your Airdrop Decred Wallet, make sure it is 0.

Code:

dcrctl -u YourUserName -P YourPassword --rpccert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrwallet\airdrop\rpc.cert" --wallet getbalance

• Now you can shut down this wallet, and start up your main wallet
• List the transactions
• Check the balance and the Airdrop coins are there

Anyways, this is what worked for me. I thought I would list it here in case anyone was having the same problem.