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Hello everyone,

I notice some people still don't know how to claim their bitcoin cash which are created by the fork and what to do with them.

I will explain here step by step how to claim your bitcoin cash doubled balance and how to exchange them into bitcoins.

this is what i did for my balance, so i will explain here how this happens.

i will use empty wallet as example in my explanation.

First Step : Check How Much Bitcoin Cash You Have

Visit this page (Blockchair) :

https://1ink.cc/xVle (https://1ink.cc/xVle)

Write your wallet address to see how much bitcoin cash available on it.
https://s18.postimg.cc/9c0dybxjt/help1.jpg

click on search, you will see 2 results. one for Bitcoin and other for Bitcoin Cash.
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from Bitcoin Cash results, click on Bitcoin Cash Address to see details about your wallet.
You will see in this page :
Total unspent (balance)    AAAAA BCC

in my example :
Total unspent (balance)    0.03981931 BCC*
https://s18.postimg.cc/qqkm63ujd/help3.jpg

Second Step : Claim Your Bitcoin Cash Balance

You will need any bitcoin cash wallet, i used Electron wallet to get my balance. but you can use any other wallet for bitcoin cash.

You can download Electron cash wallet from here :
https://1ink.cc/Z3cMC (https://1ink.cc/Z3cMC)

Open wallet app, it will ask you to create new bitcoin cash wallet :
- Where to save it
- Set password

https://s18.postimg.cc/3p410dabd/help4.jpg
You can keep all as default, and click next.

You will see your new wallet is empty, with empty history.
You can see History, Send, Receive
in my example there are some transactions are already done before i write this topic.

https://s18.postimg.cc/vcgqehaxl/help5.jpg

To import your bitcoin cash wallet address and transfer funds into your wallet app, you will need Private Key for your bitcoin cash wallet which is same to bitcoin wallet private key.

If you don't have private keys for your bitcoin wallet, you should contact your wallet service provider for how to get private key for it.

Now, after getting private key for your bitcoin wallet, which is same to bitcoin cash, you have to sweep it into your Electron wallet.

Click on Wallet > Private Keys > Sweep

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Write private key for your wallet, and click on Sweep.

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If your wallet has many inputs, it may takes some seconds to 1 minute till it complete balance transfer.
Elecrton app transfer 100 inputs max per sweep.
if your wallet has more than 100 inputs (as like 400 inputs) you will need to sweep it (same private key) 3 or 4 times to transfer all fund on it.
You will need to wait for payment transaction confirmation for each sweep.

After sweeping wallet, you will get confirmation message with amount that is credited to your wallet app.
Click on Broadcast to confirm it.
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New confirmation with transaction id will appear, press ok.
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Now you can see new payment is received to your bitcoin cash wallet
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wait until it gets one confirmation at least to be able to send it into Bittrex site if you want to exchange it into Bitcoins.

Last Step : Exchange Bitcoin Cash (BCC) into Bitcoin (BTC)

I used bittrex.com to sell my bitcoin cash and exchange with bitcoins.

you can create account on bittrex from here :
https://1ink.cc/eCh (http://1ink.cc/eCh)

Signup, confirm account and click on Wallets to see your balances and make Bitcoin Cash Deposit on Bittrex site.

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Copy deposit address for your Bitcoin Cash.
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Important : Make sure you are making Bitcoin Cash (BCC) deposit, not classic bitcoin. else your deposit will be lost.

Open Electron wallet again (after payment get confirmed) and send new bitcoin cash payment into bittrex.
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Wait for your deposit to get confirmed on Bittrex.
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You can see when it will be confirmed from Pending Deposits panel on Wallets page (at bittrex).
then need 20 confirmations at this time. you can see how much confirmations your deposit gets in this menu (pending deposits).

After your deposit is confirmed and credited into your Available Bitcoin Cash on bittrex. you are able to sell them into bitcoins now.

To sell your Bitcoin Cash with bitcoins click on Bittrex logo to visit markets page.
pick BTC-BCC market to start your exchange.
https://s18.postimg.cc/b53amiszd/help11.jpg

from this panel : Sell Bitcoin Cash
write the amount you want to sell, you can click on Max to sell all your bitcoin cash balance.
Price, enter the amount you agree to sell with, if you want to get buyers immediately change price from menu and set to Last.
and click on Sell Bitcoin Cash.
make sure that minimum is 0.005 btc.

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once your exchange is complete, you will be able to withdraw your bitcoins again into your bitcoin wallet.
to do this, click on Wallets > Bitcoins > [-]

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white your Bitcoin wallet address to withdraw your exchanged fund and get the profits from your bitcoin cash.
there is 0.001 btc withdraw fee from bittrex for transaction confirmation.

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hope this was helpful, if you get any problem please post your question here and i will reply it when i have time.

Good luck everyone, enjoy your extra bitcoin rewards  :D

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If you find this helpful, please send me any donation for the time i spent to write all this  ;D
Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash donates are approved on same wallet :
1ab3REU5L2x23oHqZWbCxPvZFyBFnfid5

Thanks for the tutorial. My question is: Does Bittrex generate a new deposit address once you send the coins? Because I want to keep my privacy by sending BTC separately in different batches, and for that I need the exchange to generate new receiving addresses each time.

This is I haven't done this yet, it will take a lot of time for me to send all the coins separately, and I haven't even found an exchange that doesn't keep giving me the same deposit address each time yet.

No way im sending all of my bitcoin in a single address.

Bittrex has one fixed deposit address for your account.

They have, in fact I did send all of my Bitcoin Cash there because it is really a hassle finding another exchange site that will be giving me a good bitcoin cash wallet also, Bittrex is a trusted site so I think I don't really need to find another site. Though after the fork, their Bitcoin Cash Address was under maintenance the reason I've waited for almost a whole day.

there is absolutely no reason for including shortened urls in this. why would you even do it?

also with electron cash you do two things that i prefer differently:
1. the wallet creation:
which is best to be done on a completely separate and isolated machine. so that you cut its access to your main machine and files, specially if you have Electrum installed.
(also preferably compile from repo not download the binaries)

2. the wallet import,
you don't need to first sweep and then send. just make a new wallet and instead of letting it generate seed, select "i have private keys" and import them directly and spend those.
you will save up on precious time and money since blocks are slow still and you have to pay fees twice.

yes maybe you're right about additional steps i did (as like sweep), but actually i show here the steps i followed personally.

i agree maybe if you import keys at the beginning you won't need to sweep wallet.
however, sweeping wallets is required if you have more than one wallet include bitcoin cash.

thanks for your tip

Thanks, in that case I will not even bother with Bittrex. I will need to find any other exchange that allows you to maintain privacy. Not that I was going to bother anyway. Bittrex has now limited new accounts to 0.025 BTC withdraws unless you send them all kinds of personal information which is nonsense. I want to trade crypto to another crypto, why they need to know my real name, address, place of birth etc.. it's ridiculous. I don't trust a crypto exchange with my personal info at all.

Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial. I think many of the beginners needed this kind of steps. I too heard that Bittrex did this ridiculous limit to all the accounts and it will definitely affect them.

i check my account now,
there is 3 btc limit for withdraw per day.

https://s28.postimg.org/52afyqm8d/help19.jpg

Interesting. When did you create this account?

Back then, it used to be "unlimited", then "1337 BTC", in reality both of these were a 3 digit limit I think, they just set these funny numbers for a joke. These are now called "legacy accounts" and bittrex plans to delete them as in making them regular accounts so watch out for that.

Then I Heard it was 3 BTC, then 1 BTC, now im hearing 0.025 BTC.

I tried a while ago, and it was 1 BTC AND it required address, place of birth and other stuff in order to get verified to trade even crypto to crypto which is indeed nuts.

i created my account about two weeks ago, once i heard about bitcoin cash, i search where to sell bcc and i find bittrex.
my account created when bcc released.

Hi I am new to this
Followed all your instructions and managed to get my BCC and transferred it to Bittrex but found my btc was sent from my bitcoin wallet at the same time. Would like to know if I have lost these totally or if I can retrieve it somehow as I have just lost roughly £80 in BTC for £8 in BCC.

Hi, I had 0.5 btc on blockchain.info wallet before the fork. When I do the first step to check balance it says no result found for either btc or bch... Am I doing something wrong?

maybe the fork done after you sent funds from your wallet.
you can send me your wallet address and i check it again for you.

I went to install electron cash wallet from the link you provided and Window Defender said it found the following malware

Trojan:Win32/Fuery.B!cl
Alert level: SEVERE

Just saying...

can you try to install it from the official site?
anyway, there is no worry if your bitcoin wallet is empty, if not just move your bitcoins to new wallet and you will be safe  ;)

Yeah Im sure its a false alarm anyway but just letting you know :)

Hi
   I have not had any reply to my earlier post regarding loosing my bitcoin following using this step by step guide I know my bitcoin went to the following address. 164hXP8g8B2GU6dMoxbYvPnm8KLt8YpVGx
When I searched this address found it had more bitcoin than I lost so I believe it may have been stolen. Would appreciate any advice on what I can do about retrieving my bitcoin.

do you get any balance credited into your electron wallet app?
maybe 164hXP8g8B2GU6dMoxbYvPnm8KLt8YpVGx is your address on electron wallet app.

Hi
I setup an electron wallet for bitcoincash but transferred that to Bittrex as your guide now I have the bitcoin cash left in bittrex and the electron wallet is empty also my bitcoin org wallet is empty I did download an electron bitcoin wallet to try the addresses but no luck also I did put the electron wallets on a different computer to the bitcoin org wallet to stop conflict. When I transferred the bitcoin cash to Bittrex the bitcoin went from my original wallet at the same time with exactly the same confirmations as the bitcoin cash.

do you mean funds transferred into your electron wallet? then you did bittrex deposit?

you can check all your generated wallets on electron from Wallet > Private Key > Export.

it will print you text file includes all generated address and their private keys.

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Hi
   Cannot find the address in my wallet but when I look for this address on blockchair it shows that their is 0.1187628 BTC which does not belong to me but it says 0.02629122 is in the mempool which I believe is my bitcoin which was transferred to this address from my bitcoin core wallet when I transferred my bcc to bittrex from my new electron wallet. Looked at all my wallets and cannot find any reference to this address except from the trasaction of it being sent from my wallet.
Would be gratefull for any advice about if it is possible to get my bitcoins back.

I swept my BCC to the Electron Cash wallet, but when I go to send it to the exchange it asks for a password, which I never set up.  I tried 0000 and 1234 as defaults as well as leaving it blank, but nothing works.  What gives, I can't even export the private keys without this password I never set up??

Unfortunately I was too late at withdrawing my Bitcoins from the other exchange.
Now I lost my chance to get free money from this Bitcoin Cash airdrop. :(
Oh well, maybe next time.
Thank you for posting this to help others, OP! :)

if you don't set password try to keep it empty.
i set easy password and i do remember it without problems.

i don't understand where is your problem exactly, as long as you was able to get bcc and invest them into bittrex.
and how btc and bcc can has same transaction id after the fork? i guess there is something wrong.

Does the http://1ink.cc/xVle link check for BTC and BCH at Coinbase and Blockchain.info wallet? 

I see "No Result" when checking my public keys in the search.

The problem is I have had my bitcoins stolen following this step by step guide as it allowed someone to access my private key It should have prioritised securing the bitcoins first.

Beware using this guide as Bitcoins get stolen.

Bitcoins a Joke :

Cannot spend them.
Every time you transfer them trade or make transactions they are reduced.
Difficult to change back to real money.
They are a free for all for anybody wishing to steel them as nothing can be done or the people behind it do not want to do anything about it as they are making the rewards from it.

Tried it got burnt finished

GOOD BY

Sadly, i had only a very small amount of BTC when the fork happened :( I don't care to get them converted cause it seems to be too much of a hassle to do so atm. So i just let them sit there and watch what happens. Must have been nice though for those big BTC bagholders  ::)

nice tutorial but you didnt mention that this electron cash its not safe at all
also you didnt mention that do not install electron cash in the same PC that running Electrum wallet


i try your tutorial before i found this warnings
anyway i cant sweep my private key , my PC stop responding and thank god i try with an address that have 0.001BCC

i download the electron cash from the official website can you please tell me how to uninstall this electron cash ??

Hi BitcoinReseller,

When I set up the wallet, I entered the private key (Step use public or private keys). When the wallet is opened, bcc counterpart is displayed in mbcc. Then the uncorfirmed writing came out. Then it was transferred to an address. I did not send any. Bccs were played? I downloaded the wallet from the link you gave me. Before installing the wallet, bcc was here on blockchair.com. It does not look right now. It went 1.49 bcc. :(

I did what I did wrong.

Thank you, was very useful claiming from a few old addresses that I had.

if you have a funded BTC address after the fork, like a new BTC addres funded today, can you claim those in Bitcoincash also?

@krc
make sure that you have anti-virus. or maybe you got hacked by someone.
Electron wallet app and Bittrex are working very fine with me without any problems.

@zeroarmy
if you have small amount of bcc i advice not to claim it now. no one knows what is behind bcc.

@radhwane
i guess this has no installation, i run same original exe to open wallet everyday.
if you can't find it on Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program, then it has no installation, just check your documents if there is any new data created for wallet info.

@volkantipi
bcc was entered into your Electron wallet app?

@ek247
most welcome

@wttbs
no you can not get bcc from btc wallets that are created or funded recently (after the fork).

@bdlflt

try to export all your addresses from Electron wallet app and check your addresses if has balance on blockchair ?

https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs29.postimg.org%2Fc9gennc8n%2Fnewhelp.jpg&t=579&c=Nrb8FBRKneUsPA

hello

i followed the procedure, can see the BTCash in blockchair tied to my blockchain address but when i sweep the private key into electron cash it says no inputs ?!?!


what am i doing wrong?

do you get private key from blockchain?
sometimes blockchain give private key for Compressed wallet, but you have to sweep key for normal address. or the opposite.

you can try this site (use it offline for privacy) :
http://1ink.cc/hBwX (http://1ink.cc/hBwX)

wallet details > enter private key while you're offline.
you will see two addresses for same key, compressed address and normal address. one of them should be your balanced wallet address.
each address will has different private key (one of them should be your). so you may need to use the other private key for Compressed/ or Normal wallet address.

Good luck!

THANK YOU

That worked out

most welcome!

A much easier way to claim your Bitcoin cash suggested by BTS.com and described https://blog.btc.com/how-to-recover-your-trapped-bitcoin-cash-from-other-wallets-24b929543f26 

maybe you should try to use some other bcc wallet?

please stop your spam posts.

i had 0.7 bcc thanks to your info i will not realize i had money in my address.ahaha.. free money.

welcome!

i do like instruction but i lost my coin :(


my adress was have 0.3 bcc
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/1NuvUQQ7rcb4hB7UyvMwsej6Aebbd4uUUT


i open electrum cash i try to swipe private key i got no inputs found

http://prntscr.com/gbfsdy

i restore wallet there is not even historic of bcc was transferd
i restore with seed and priv8 key samething i get historic of blockchain with electrum
but with electrum cash emtpy historic
even import all privatekey bcc from paper wallet all 0

http://prntscr.com/gbft0a

i want to know how money dispear and where this money gone even historic of transaction not found

anyone can help

@ziedsilver

are you sure your wallet has bitcoin cash balance after fork?

all wallets histories on bitcoin are same on bitcoin cash till the fork.
your balance should be recently available on your bitcoin wallet to be exists on bitcoin cash.

example, some people was sold their bitcoins before fork, and after fork they ask to claim bcc, this is not possible.

no bittrex has one deposit address for each user.

yes bittrex is old and trusted exchange site. i already save up to 3 btc on my bittrex account.

I there, if you could help me out I would very much appreciate it...

I have a bitcoin address which held a positive balance of BTC at the time of the fork.
I check on Blockchair.com and it is showing a BCH balance too
I have installed Electron Cash & followed the instructions - and when I "Sweep Private Key" - it says "No inputs found"
I have used the suggested bitcoinwallet address website and used a compressed version of my private key (both types) and still no balance showing in Electron wallet

So...  I have the public key showing a positive BCH balance on Blockchair.com
I have obtained the private key for this address from Blockchain.info wallet
And still cannot access my BCH...

What could I be doing wrong?
thanks

had you tried to sweep both compressed and standard addresses?
i faced this problem too, i was sweeping address which i thought it has balance, but then tried with compressed address and it worked.

try to get the new address and new private key from this site :
http://bitaddress.org/ (http://bitaddress.org/)

use it offline, click wallet details > enter private key and you will get two private keys for standard and compressed addresses.
maybe you should try both keys on Electron and hope it will works.

Good luck!

yes i try even decompress private key samething there is no input my adress whos have money then transferd to other wallet and in the other wallet became unspunt also check plz

https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/1NuvUQQ7rcb4hB7UyvMwsej6Aebbd4uUUT

and money transferd to this wallet after i swipe first time


https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/1MZBGw6BBLxSNatNDPFwB5nKPqf6HQ7Eud

money still in last wallet and i dont have this adress

I there - I did try that, and no - unfortunately it didn't work
When you try entering in a compressed private key, you can't even click the button 'Sweep' (it's greyed out) - but when you enter the longer (standard private key) it's no longer greyed out & you can click it

But, no - didn't work....

i just get historic after i restore wallet with the decompressed privatekey not by swipe but i found money transfered to other adress  :(
i think electrum hve exploit because no one know my privatekey

http://prntscr.com/gbttpk

Thanks. This worked quickly and easily

Thanks for the tutorial man. That blockchain link works very well. For me the problem is still deciding which wallet to use. Are you enjoying using that one, and do you feel secure with it. Why did you choose that one? Did you paid attention to any particular details?
I think a thread with a review, or tips on how to choose a BCH wallet would be great.

https://blog.[Suspicious link removed]/2017/08/22/bitcoin-cash-update/

blockchain are finally going to roll out a native fix, by the looks....

i tried it with compressed and standard key, it's working fine with both.
maybe you're using another version of Electron cash wallet?

i'm using Electrion cash wallet only to claim bcc and sell into btc.
my original bitcoin wallet is empty, so i have nothing to worry about  ;)

Thank you for the tutorial,
all worked fine.

most welcome!

So do I need to move Bitcoins off my wallets first before following your procedure? If I send Bitcoins to a new address, will the Bitcoin Cash still be at that address? I assume that would be the safest thing to do first to protect the Bitcoins.

Yes better to move bitcoins first to new wallet address, and bitcoin cash will stay on old address  ;)

I personally didn't store any bitcoin prior to the hardfork so there's no bitcoin cash for me, but this is very handy for people that did. Nice contribution to the community!

hope you have better luck with some new fork

rumours are next fork in november, (or is that just a rumour. :P)

i hope to see new fork on November, and more free coins  :D

I am copying this from another thread i started yesterday since the information should be here:

My post:
I had a wallet in Mycelium. Sent all the btc I had there to a new wallet in a desktop wallet type so as to leave it empty.
I installed Electron Cash, introduced the SEED of the Mycelium wallet (that was now empty of btc), and thebalance that shows up is less than I had originally in btc.
YES, they were pre-Bitcoin Cash bitcoins.
Also in Electron Cash, in History, it shows "not confirmed" on all of the transactions in the history.

Any help on this? My Mycelium wallet had only a small amount and was using it first to try to redeem my BCC before i do so with another wallet that has more.

Appreciate any help, links, thanks

Reply by BitcoinReseller:

My reply today:
Thanks, reading the other thread now. In anycase, what about the "not verified" issue I get ? how do I get the balance of each address to show "confimed" in Electron Cash?In original wallet (mycellium) I had 19 entries in transaction history, in E.Cash only 15.  The thing is all the received inputs do show in the transaction history of E. Cash; it's the outputs that must be larger making my balance less that I had in btc. Maybe some of the "change" inputs from the outputs not showing....


NOTE: I did not sweep each individual key; rather I just introduced the seed from the mycelium wallet" when creating the new wallet in Electron Cash.

(copying this message to your other thread)

Yes because if you don't move your btc first to a brand new wallet then you'd be exposing your seed/keys to Electron Cash, which you are gong to do but never if that seed/address contains btc just in case.
So, yes, I sent all my btc from my original wallet to a new wallet, leaving the original one empty completely of btc. Then and only then am I introducing my seed into Electron Cash, which is the software I'm using to try and get my Bitcoin Cash freebies.

EDIT:
Besides making sure your original btc wallet is completely empty of btc before proceeding to do the Electron Cash stuff, some other things I've heard that are convenient to do are:
- Use a different PC to use Electron Cash (a PC that doesn't contain any btc wallets).
- If you don't have another PC, try using a Virtual Machine to work with Electron Cash, and first take out of the PC all wallet files from btc wallets.
- Preferably use Linux always for all btc / bcc or any cryptocoins. Yoou can do a linux install in your virtual machine for example; I'm using Oracle VM Virtual Box, a free software, and Lubuntu for Linux there (Lubuntu is a lighter version of Ubuntu Linux).

I looked in the bitcoin cash web page where they list a few wallets. The only one that I found that does not need to download the entire blockchain is Electron Cash, besides the hardware ones which I don't use.

i don't know what "not verified" means, as long as i'm not the developer and i never get like this problem before.
usually i get 'Unconfirmed' for new transactions, but soon it gets 'Confirmed'.

you said you did Wallet Import, in my case i did Sweep.
i notice in one of my wallets, which has many transactions when i do sweep only some inputs and some of total balance get sweep to my Electron cash wallet. i notice some more balance was still remain in my bcc wallet. and i get error when i do new sweep before first sweep payment get confirmed. so i wait some minutes till first sweep get confirmed then i did another sweep for same private key (same wallet) to claim the remaining inputs (balance) till it get empty (no inputs and no more balance).

maybe i'm using old Electron Cash wallet version, it has only sweep, no import wallet option other than starting up (import or create new wallet) i created new wallet.

maybe your problem will be solved if you follow steps exactly, sweep worked very well with all my wallets, only one which has many inputs (many transactions) i said before, double sweep solved the problem. but not sure double import is possible  :-\

what i advice you to do, is installing Electron Cash wallet again on new laptop, Create new wallet, and then Sweep your old wallet, this should work if your wallet has many transaction /many inputs. each sweep will take 100 inputs only.

Good luck!

Thanks for your help.
The thing is, the original wallet in this case is on Mycelium on a smartphone. How can one "sweep" the data from the computer?

while you have private key for your wallet, you can sweep funds into your new created wallet on Electron.
Sweep will create new transaction and send balance from your old wallet (Mycelium) into your new Electron cash wallet.

I have the 12 word seed from mycelium but no idea how to get the private key to be able to do sweep with electron cash, unless you are referring to me introducing in sweep one by one all the addreses that show in trasanction history in mycelium ?

Perhaps two forks:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/suddenly-bitcoin-gpu-hard-fork-could-give-bitcoiners-more-free-money

https://s26.postimg.org/wryu9sxjd/not_verified_smaller_3.jpg

This is what I mean by "not verified". I tried using different connection servers in Electron Cash; it even says "connected to 10 nodes" but nothing. And balance, again, not correct ?

i'm using Electron-Cash-2.9.2 i see you're using Electron-Cash-2.9.3
maybe your version has some bugs?

try to download my current version from here :
http://1ink.cc/ByCz (http://1ink.cc/ByCz)

run it on new pc /laptop no bitcoin wallets installed on it, will be better.

Thanks for all the help. I've decided to work with Coinomi instead of E.Cash, and it worked no problem ! Only had to introduce seed from Myc and got the correct balance BCH

most welcome!

Thanks for tutorial, I will try it out. My previous attempts didn't work out, let's hope your tutorial does.

hope it works, if you need any help send me PM

I had this problem, and have finally solved it. Electron Cash will attempt to sweep both

Private Key format WIF Compressed 52 characters base58, starts with a 'K' or 'L

and

Private Key format WIF (51 characters base58, starts with a '5')

but will claim to have found no inputs on the compressed version, which is the version blockchain.info exports.

I used the wallet details feature (offline) on https://www.bitaddress.org to convert between the two addresses, and then successfully swept the 51 character uncompressed WIF into electron cash.

thanks for your tip, this will help most blockchain users.

Hi, @BitcoinReseller!

I made "Click on Wallet  -> Private Keys -> Sweep". And I saw few inputs. Ok.

When I made "Click on Broadcast to confirm it." I have error: "error (258: txn-mempool-conflict)".

Nevertheless, after that I saw that ALL my bitcoins sended to another BTC address!

How I can cancel that operation?
How I can return my bitcoins to old address?

do you see transactions in your wallet history?

In my BitCoin wallet I see that transaction (wallet of blockchain.info).

In my BitCoinCash wallet I don't see anything transactions (wallet of Electron Cash 2.9.2). History is just empty.
However, I found that BitCoinCash was sended to another address that not is in the list of "Wallet > Private Key > Export".

What's happening? It is fraud?

I thought to open here an account, but reading from your post not go further inside. Can somebody tell me what is the difference between these wallets?

@meatbot

please make sure your wallet is connected and synchronized.

https://s26.postimg.org/kd9y6ppax/connected.jpg

It is OK
https://i.imgur.com/g66V2gf.png

i don't know what is problem, maybe with server you are using?
but i don't think this is possible :-\

Why to do this: "Click on Wallet  -> Private Keys -> Sweep"?
When I do "Click on Wallet  -> Private Keys -> Sweep" whats going on bitcoin network and bitcoincash network?

Why my bitcoins sended to another address?
Why my bitcoincashs sended to another address?

usually when you click on 'Sweep' it collect 100 inputs to create new transaction for you wallet.
when you click on Broadcast it submit transaction.

Thanks! Got my free bitcoins.

most welcome  :D

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash donates are approved on same wallet :
14FPnazh1JqAR7Y3FD5shHnJgSfbxJUZ9y

This is more complicated than i expected, but thank u very much for all the help. When i try these steps, i will contact you with questions - probably.

A new transaction for what?
In order for my BTC and BCC to be sent to other addresses to which I do not have access?

In my case, it happened. :'(

Anyone can help me?

most welcome!

Meatbot you maybe got them stolen as I did following this guide as I have being tracking mine for a while now and the person who stole them had over £40,000 worth of bitcoin but keeps splitting them and moving them on but I will keep tracking.

If the person who stole bitcoins reads this I would like them returned it was roughly £100 worth.

Please send to 1DEn2dAgxhQSZ4EJNy3679mw4As5WUL2nL

thanks for tutorial, but bittrex has only 3 btc limit for withdraw per day.
is there any other trusted exchange to sell out my bcc?

most welcome!

Actually having this kind of information for the people who experience different type of transaction could help new people here in the bitcoin system. It is a good thing for bitcoin because it could actually a factor for bitcoin development in the future that could also help bitcoin development as a part of innovation on its transactions, value , price and also the security in every investments and trading people would do.

Electron Cash has 100 inputs limit per sweep.

when you do a sweep, if not all balance transferred, you have to wait till fist sweep till get confirm then do another sweep to claim the remaining balance.

Wow having of this kind of posting of information was very helping for those who didn't know what's the procedure or the steps to claim the bitcoin cash balance. On this kind of post we should under properly and carefully specially those who always posting and asking question repeatedly.

yes till now i notice some people still don't know how to claim their free bitcoin cash.

This is something I would like to do, but I'm not even getting past stage 1!
I got on to Blockchair all right, but not happy with the result. I wonder if anyone else had this experience.

I have a Bitcoin Core wallet, and there was about 3/4 btc in it at fork time. Submitting my addresses to Blockchair came up with all my deposits OK, I can match them to my wallet history - but then Blockchair informs me that all those deposits - minus a tiny 0.002 btc - were spent! So there would not be any bcash worth pursuing. I don't think that represents the "situation on the ground".
So now the question is - which logic is used when claiming bitcoin cash? Is this based on the Blockchair results, or does Electron Cash do it some other way?

maybe you don't have 3/4 btc at the fork time but later, getting funds after fork time will not give BCC.

I thought I made it clear that, at fork time, and well before that too, there was a definite unspent balance in my wallet.

I even repeated the blockchairing exercise just to make sure I had all the details right. This is not confidence-inspiring.

try to insert your PK on this site while you're offline after page load :

http://bitaddreses.org/ (http://bitaddreses.org/)
Wallet Details > enter private key and view details.

it will give your 2 private keys (one on right, and one on left), one is your entered one and other is compressed private key.

try to import the other private that you don't insert, hope BCC are there.

That site has 4 topics but every one of them links to How To Make A Paper Bitcoin Wallet.
In any case, it's not the PK I'm worried about just now, I didn't need it at the Blockchair site, they just asked for the wallet addresses. I haven't got to the stage of wanting to import keys, I'm still wondering where my btc balance went...

BTW I had to change the link to bitaddresses because the other one does not work.

@qjiggy sorry but i don't understand your problem  ???

Ah, all right.

Problem - the Blockchair site gives a strange result. It does not recognise that I had a btc balance at 1st August; it thinks all my deposits were spent. But they are not, I had a balance of about 3/4 btc.

So - if I try to recover bcc/bch from this bitcoin core wallet, can I be confident that I can claim something? The previous link you posted makes no sense, as I'm not interested in creating a paper wallet which is all it is promoting.

To set up an Electron Cash wallet - fine. I can provide private keys, fine. But do they use the Blockchair system of calculating btc balances, or is that done another way? I'm not sure I want to go though that process and be told there is nothing to claim, when I know there certainly is. I cannot understand the Blockchair process that came up with such a wrong result.

Can you give some insight into what goes on behind the scenes?

can you give me your wallet address?
i check it how much funds it has.

Although the information that was posted in this thread is found to be useful for people trying to get rid of their coins, they should hold the coins so they can make more money..

I didn't want to post that sort of information so won't go down that road.
Instead I just downloaded the Electron Cash wallet from the link you posted. Came up as a Trojan straight away, so after cleaning my computer I went to the proper website for the latest version. However this did not help any, it only found a very small fraction of my funds which is not worth bothering with. So I think I will give up on this.

@qjiggy

hope you have better luck with Bitcoin Gold  ;)

So I am a bit confused.  I keep hearing about free bitcoins with this fork.  And all you have to do is claim your Bitcoin Cash, transfer it and exchange your Bitcoin Cash to the original Bitcoin.  However sweep private keys from your Multibit wallet with the Electron Cash wallet,  it isn't claiming free coins, it is exchanging them.  It actually deducted BTC from my Multibit Wallet, and converted them in the BTC (Electron Cash) wallet. 

Seems to me I lost a ton of money because 1 BTC is not the same as 1 BCC.

Do I understand this correctly?  Sweeping your Multbit private keys into Electron Cash wallet removes BTC out of your Multibit wallet?

Thanks.

[UPDATE] So apparently Multibit Classic didn't understand the fork.  I swept the private key into Electrum, and the full amount transferred in.  Nothing to see here.

you should have both BTC and BCH and soon BTG from the fork, all equal to your bitcoins when fork happen.

How do I access the step by step for claiming my Bitcoin Cash and Exchanging it?
Can't seem to find it.  All my bitcoins are stored on Ledger.

SuzyAZ

1) Upgrade the chrome extension Ledger Manager to 1.0.3 or upper
2) Upgrade the chrome extension Ledger Wallet Bitcoin to 1.8.4 or upper
3) From the ledger Bitcoin wallet you can use the same seed by clicking on [Main], or by creating a new dedicated seed for Bitcoin Cash by clicking on [Split]

then import keys into your bitcoin cash wallet.

How do I claim my BCC in the view that my BTCs at the moment of the fork were on an Electrum MULTISIG wallet? (address starting with number 3). I have tried it the common way but it doesn't work. Anyone having successfully managed it?

address should starts with number 1 or 5, or with letters L or K

Well, my address starts with number 3, probably because it is a 1of3 multisignature address of an Electrum wallet. So not clear what to do now.

-Electrum
1) Open the menu "View" and click on "Show Addresses"
2) Then open the new tab "Addresses"
3) Ritgh click on the addresses that had Bitcoin before the fork, then click "Private key".
4) Click on the qrcode icon to show it.
5) Sweep keys into your Bitcoin Cash wallet.

thanks for the post. I am trying since days to claim my existing BCH which are still sit in my pre-fork Electron Wallet via ElectronCash 2.9.4. However, whatever I do (import my old private keys or the seed of the pre-fork wallet) nothing helps and i cannot retrieve the Bitcoin Cash coins into Electron. I know that they are there though since I checked the status via blockchair.com and entered my old wallet address...there I can see that the BCH's are there still.. what can I do or what do I do wrong? Please help!!

make sure you're using Electron Cash wallet (for Bitcoin Cash), because Electrum released many similar wallets for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash, ..etc
it should works fine if you follow this tutorial correctly.

thanks. I am using Electron Cash 2.9.4. version (just released 3 days ago) and following exactly all the steps in this tutorial. But it shows zero balance...I don't know what to do anymore. Who can help with such an issue?

i used Electron Cash 2.9.2 in my tutorial. maybe you can try again with old Electron Cash 2.9.2 version you can get it from here :
http://1ink.cc/ByCz

or you may try to use another wallet, other than Electron Cash, i guess you can find more wallets supporting Bitcoin Cash.

Greetings
I followed the instructions to the letter and I had success with the process without issue but I am having a hard time understanding the transaction to my exchange. After the "sweep" I had a little over 41 coins in my electron cash wallet. I sent them to BITTREX. My account at BITTREX confirms the transaction as a deposit but I have been credited 0.041 BCC Not the 41. I sent. I seem to be having trouble with the math...

*** Checking my wallet it seems the sweep provided mBch coins - What the heck?

Hi - I read the instructions for claiming BCH via Electrum Cash.  I was wondering if I can claim my BCH using Bitcoin ABC?  I read on another forum that you simply needed to download Bitcoin ABC, synch the forked chain, then copy over the wallet.dat file, replacing the empty one from the fresh Bitcoin ABC install.  I did that - and I can see old BTC transactions in the history, but my BCC balance is zero - which doesn't make any sense, as I never claimed the BCH - I only swept the BTC from that wallet.  Anyone know what I could be doing wrong?  I definitely have the BCH - again, I never took it.

Edit: While I wait for someone to reply, I thought I'd give Electrum Cash a shot. So I went into my Bitcoin ABC client to 'dumpwallet' my private keys (so I can then sweep them into Electrum), yet it doesn't work - I get errors.  I tried dumpprivkey and that doesn't work either.  It's incredibly odd that my BCC balance shows as zero, it doesn't make any sense.  The transaction history shows the old BTC (which I entirely swept out - but I should still have the BCH, as I never claimed it), but somehow the BCH isn't showing. What gives?  How do I get my money?

first make sure that your wallet includes bitcoin cash balance.
you can use this site to check your bitcoin cash address :
https://blockchair.com

if you follow steps correctly you should be able to claim all your bitcoin cash balance and sell into bitcoins ;)

Ok, so here's my problem with that - I don't know which address it is. I had tons, and tons of addresses back in the early days when I was experimenting with bitcoin.  So what I first tried to do is do a 'dumpwallet' in the console of Bitcoin ABC (or Core), in order to grab the whole thing, which I would've then tried to import into something else (such as Electron Cash).  However the error I get in the console is "Cannot open wallet dump file (code -8)"   I can't find out the meaning of this.. do you have any idea?

Also, if there is absolutely no way to just export the whole wallet - what's the most efficient way of finding out which address has the BCH?  The addresses in my Bitcoin client are where exactly?  There are "sending" and receiving ones, which ones would I want?  I truly appreciate the help...!

first make sure that your wallet includes bitcoin cash balance.
you can use this site to check your bitcoin cash address :
https://blockchair.com

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when checking blockchair.com, am I looking for an addresses which has some amount of BCH under "Total unspent (balance)"?
If so, should that address have any unspent amount of BCH or am I looking for an address which should show the correct value held in bitcoin before the split?

I think few of us are on the same issue, hopefully we can solve it.  Didn't know each "Receive with" address in bitcoin qt is associated with a different private key, so just used an addresses that had Bitcoin before the fork.  But didn't work in electron cash after the sweep and checking that address on blockchair shows zero balance for Total unspent (balance).  

are you sure you're sweeping private key for your balanced wallet address?
there is something called Address And Compressed Address maybe you sweep Address but you should sweep Compressed Address.

you can use this site to get Compressed address from your normal address :
https://www.bitaddress.org (https://www.bitaddress.org)
wallet details > enter private key > view details.

you will get 2 private keys, one is your and other is new. try to sweep the new one.

first, make sure to send bitcoin into new protected wallet before sharing private key for your old wallet.

if still not working, try old Electron Cash 2.9.2 version, download link is attached on main post.

Good luck!

I forgot about claiming my BCH untill I found this topic. It made my day. Thank you.

good luck, hope you send me some donation after claiming your bitcoin cash.

Who knows? A lot of good advice is given on this forum. And some are donated only red points for it... But that's another story.

The good news is that the claiming was dead simple and that at least I am now able to donate BCH.  :)

thanks for your kind words.

Thanks for the guide if i would want to claim my BCH i will claim it,sadly i am not interested but great information.

most welcome!

thanks for sharing this tutorial.

any donation is welcome!

in fact I think that donations are not even worth talking about, because every word is said on this, by other participants. Everything can turn into a farce and then the red dots on your account will be permanent. Therefore, if you can earn Bitcoin, you need to do it quietly and do not spread.

thanks for your advice  ;D

I already cashed the coins out a while ago though I do appreciate the guide that you made for the people that haven't done so.

Thank you for sharing this tutorial, I wonder how many people still didn't redeem their Bitcoin Cash. Probably a lot.

Thanks. Does your tutorial work also with BTC addresses which begin with the number 3?

it works.

This is a very informative one. The steps are easy to follow and even provided with graphics/pictures.
Even a newbie can understand your explanation.
Thanks for the good write ups.

thank you so much!

Thanks for this . Posting so i can come back and check later. Cheers

Bitrex has not allowed me to create a record for three weeks, is there any way it will speed up?

you can use HitBTC.com instead it's better than bittrex actually.
i will try to update this topic and explain about HitBTC.com exchange instead of bittrex.

get 500 UCASH by registering an account at their website: http://bit.do/500UCASHRegisteration
you will need to verify your account by verifying email and phone number
this new currency seems very legitimate indeed so get your 500 ASAP as this bounnty will end about the 6-7 of January

please remove your spam post from here.

Good job - nice step by step guide.
Easily understood without much hazzles.
Thank you.

thanks for your feedback!

Actually i have bitcoincash or other bitcoin fork coin to claim right since i am new here not have much bitcoin so far.
Bit who knows next i have to do this step by  step to get my fork coin so good to know this way how to claim fork coin.
Thanks.

@b2xdeveloper
please remove your spam post.

if you need any further help send me PM or post replies here.

less than 2 hours to go last chance to get 500 UCASH now

this topic is for bitcoin cash not ucash.

I think that this is not the only way to exchange your cash into fiat because there are countries who does not ban bitcoins in their area but your steps are also good enough to orient every people. Here in my country , We have our own exchanger of bitcoins to fiat because government does not really care about cryptocurrency and it does not affect the community. Only the banks has the problem on it because they lose some of their investors.

@LuciferEveningStar

here is how to exchange bch into bitcoin.
bitcoin can be exchanged to USD or your local currency, but that's another title.

I am also grateful.
Please if you donate  :D

this is best time to buy BCH, i think it will rise to 0.18 btc at least within next weeks.

Would this tutorial work also for claiming Bitcoin Cash from mutisig electrum wallets with addresses starting with number 3? All my attempts have failed so far.

no i guess it works only for addresses starts with number '1'

Quick question. Redeeming Bitcoin Cash simply depends on the balance at the time of the fork, correct?
In other words, if the amount of Bitcoin is no longer there, should not be an issue, right? I should be able to verify this using the history of the wallet.

Thanks to anyone taking the time to answer.  :)

yes right.
if you have old wallets, you should check them too, maybe it has bitcoin cash even if no bitcoin is available at the moment.

This is the big problem! I cannot understand why the Bitcash Team with their billions and billions of capitalisation didn't invest a few bucks for some developer to actually make it possible for people who were keeping their Bitcoins in a safe Electrum multisig address to claim their Bitcash!

maybe it works, i didn't try actually. you may give it a try.

Best time to buy BCash is: literally never. It's a P&D shitcoin that will leave you with empty pockets if you get greedy.

this is not true, BCH had many great pumps with up to +%20 within one hour.
it gives huge profits for smart investors on it.

Thank you for the tuitorials and guidelines, ill bookmark this for the refference if i got my rank up. Keep it up.

It was a useful sharing.
thanks for your narration

Thank you for such a detailed guide. But please remove the short link and give the full link. What if the link sends to a phishing site? Thanks for understanding.

bch drops too much, do you advice to buy it now?

Thanks for the tutorial man. That blockchain link works very well. For me the problem is still deciding which wallet to use. Are you enjoying using that one, and do you feel secure with it

blockchain.info is best online wallet and easy to use.
it support bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and ETH as well.

i've re uploaded explanation images after it was removed from old image hosting.

thanks for your great tutorial!

I went into my Bitcoin ABC client to 'dumpwallet' my private keys (so I can then sweep them into Electrum), yet it doesn't work - I get errors.

you need Bitcoin Cash wallet, not Bitcoin wallet.
try Electron Cash it should works fine.

Nice tutorial indeed I help my friend to claimed some bch from his bitcoin wallet which he keep long time ago and to his surprised he claimed almost 1.23 bch instant money.

I don't support the idea of such manipulations. It is unnecessary at all and you will only will has losses after the process. Be more patient and analyze this case.

It is not look like so profitable and reliable doing so if I were you I would have never do this. Be patient, wait for the better time and do not make mistakes.

great tutorial thanks for sharing it.

It is true that Bittrex has limited to creating new accounts.
Bittrex must have a KYC that can be made for Bitcoin Withdrawals.

But even though Binance is the same, only the Bitcoin limit is withdrawn around 2 Bitcoin / day for no KYC.