Private key is not valid comes when try to deploy on testnet

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Hi! just already deployed it and now was working with final tests and wanted o re-deploy to check staging however this error comes on the way..

I have even changed the rpc and key but it is still there.

[SidharthK2]

please push your code on github

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Yes I want it to get deployed on Goerli as everything I marked in 'yellow' color too.

Im sorry how did you find I'm trying on Rinkeby!? :/

[SidharthK2]

I would have to look at your repo, or it's hard to help.

[SidharthK2]

Double-check your RPC URL from Alchemy and your private key from Metamask.

[TimeKeyRoll]

Did

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https://github.com/MasterofBlockchain/hh-Fund-Me-fcc

here ya go!

[adityabhattad2021]

Check if you have require("dotenv").config() in hardhat.config.js.

[TimeKeyRoll]

Yes I have

[adityabhattad2021]

try logging it in hardhat.config.js to confirm it is what you expect

[TimeKeyRoll]

What does that mean sir?

[adityabhattad2021]

After you declare private key in hardhat.config.js before module.export
do a console.log(what ever name you initialised private key with)

[RoboCrypter]

@MasterofBlockchain : Are you still stuck in this?

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hey ! i just fixed the code. there was const keyword missing. it is working all good.

I am not sure how come you have made 9723 changes to my repo.
anyway man. thankyou very much.

[RoboCrypter]

@MasterofBlockchain : I made that changes aswell in my PR, I made all these changes because I was not using toolbox and NPM and I had all the other dependencies, and also made some changes in your unit tests. thats it.

[RoboCrypter]

@MasterofBlockchain : You don't need to make all the changes I made, just compare my changes to your files, and by that you would have fixed the PRIVATE_KEY. Just specify next time to use NPM. ThankYou

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Hey Sir! Remember me telling you I was using NPM' and 'toolbox' but you said you have never used 'Npm'.. I think you complety forgot out chat. It's in the same chat

Anyway yes toolbox does not want me to get any of the tools you have downloaded. So it was showing me in my repo!?

I understand you tried to clone and tried to make it work. But why all the things you were using and doing are in my 'repo'. This simply has confused me. Lol

And i don't know what's 'PR'... And even did you claimed to fix it I ould found any description of it where the issue was mentioned..

Please help me to know all this. So it can help me better what were you saying and what were you trying to do and how it could help me than confusing me. Thanks

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BTW in not trying to question your intelligence but curious to know what were you trying to do? Lol

[othaime-en]

Hey @MasterofBlockchain the error Private key is invalid is occuring because hardhat is using the second/alternate private key ( 0x0000000000000000000000 ) which means that process.env.PRIVATE_KEY isn't picking up anything, meaning that you need to check if you indeed have the PRIVATE_KEY variable in your .env file or if you've mispelled it.

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This was a practice test from my own cloned repo. Previously it went smooth and I have checked it as well. It's there.

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Fixed the code! Evrything was okay other than const keyword. i missed this one before declaring the key. it was givin me an Error and it fixed the error and the code.