# So I'm a dumbass and have sent BTC to a GEMZ wallet **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 6, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/so-im-a-dumbass-and-have-sent-btc-to-a-gemz-wallet/1697 "2015-12-06T17:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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Where’s your GEMZ wallet? Do you mean one on the phone? Regardless, if you have the private key of the address you sent it to, you can always sweep it from any bitcoin wallet. Your GEMZ will remain in place. You can also use Counterwallet for that. > [@How to sweep XCP or BTC from a Blockchain.info wallet?](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/how-to-sweep-xcp-or-btc-from-a-blockchain-info-wallet/1215): > > There are several formats of private keys. For this purpose we’ll focus on two: compressed and non-compressed. Counterwallet uses the compressed WIF (begins with a letter). You Have a Non-Compressed Private Key (starts with 5H, 5J, or 5K) Counterwallet uses compressed private keys, so if your private key from blockchain.info begins with a numeric character, you can’t use it in Counterwallet - you first need to get it in the compressed format. See this article for details (Case 2 on the page). … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/so-im-a-dumbass-and-have-sent-btc-to-a-gemz-wallet/1697)._