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Okay I had an older empty wallet  last used in Nov 2015  it was a core 11  I went to upgrade it to have a wallet for holding coin

I also started a new core 14 wallet  for holding coin to wait for the fork.

First question  fork comes I have 1 coin in each wallet.  this is the core 14 wallet.  that downloads from this site.

do I have 2 forks on each wallet  and my 2 coins  are now 4

wallet 1 =1 btc now wallet 1 =  1btc left side of fork    1 btc/seg    right side of fork.   values of each to be determined by the market.

wallet 2 would do the same since it is a core 14 from this site link




next question  if I want a faster core synch up

24gb ram

 i7 6700t cpu

500 gb empty ssd   all on win 10  should be quick to synch

I think I will build 3 core 14 wallets


one on win 10
one on mac os
one on linux

maybe 1 coin in each to wait for the fork.

I can not seem to find a lot of info here  about where to keep my coins  so that I have coins on both forks.

So as I understand it, from reading this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2012799.0) in depth.
Your private keys control the bitcoin and therefore each get the "split" so you only end up with one x amount of BTC and one x amount of BTCAlt.

This means that the split should only be applied once to your coins controlled by the private keys (be aware that if it happens twice, there may be some issues in rejection by the network). There's also the added complication that extra software will be needed to handle the split so there will probably only be the one split (and not both that will be applied).

You can always keep it going and experiment with it though, I'd be interested to find the results you get.

If you want very fast sync you could import your private keys into the electrum wallet.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients

The dev gave these instructions explaining how to split your coins using electrum. The instructions were for concerns about a different fork that never happened, but they should also be applicable to concerns about another fork.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/hardfork.html?highlight=fork

Just as a quick question, does this need to be done before or after the hard fork?
Also, how do you know which node will be a "Core" one and which will be a "BU" one?

If you go into the console tab, you will see a message from the server. This will usually include the user agent of the server you are connected to and that will tell you whether they are Bitcoin Core, UASF, BU, Bitcoin Classic, etc. If you do not see that there, then connect to one until you see a user agent that you like.

You don't need to do anything before a possible fork. If you don't move your coins you can split them using the wallet of your choice afterwards.

There's a place in the electrum settings where you can choose to manually connect to s specific node rather than use the default auto connect feature.

If there's no message from the server including the user agent in the console tab you can search for it's IP address at bitnodes. That site will tell you what type of node it is.

https://bitnodes.21.co/

Ah, thanks HI-TEC. I'll assume the type will be posted straight after the soft fork has happened as that site is updated quite frequently..