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I have been searching to claim bitcoin cash from Electrum for awhile. I reviewed few too many posts regarding this. For every positive sign, I found a negative sign. I wanted to get opinion on my next steps.

I already transferred my BTC from one electrum wallet to another of different computer.

Now I was planning to use Electron Cash 2.9.3 (current version). But I see negatives may loosing their BCH as they process; and there are many success stories.

Can someone (few members) please shed some light?

Is there a way to transfer BCH direct from electrum to perhaps an exchange until electron cash becomes more stable?

I think someone already post the guide on claiming bitcoin cash on electrum. But ok here is the guide.

1. move your BTC from your electrum addy to new electrum addy.. but make sure to keep private key of the old one or wallet seed.
2.download coinomi wallet (this wallet was i used)
3.import your private key in coinomi wallet
4.then Go to BCC in coinomi and sweep wallet.
5.wait and BCC will appear shortly.


This not my personal guide. Credits to theymos or hostfat. ;)

personally, i used electron cash wallet to access my BCH and I successfully transferred my BCH to an exchange and sold it. You don't have to worry losing anything as long as you transferred your bitcoin to another secured address first

why you should move also btc? there is even the risk they can use it for a bad purpose?

there might be a risk on that one, so moving your btc to another address is much safer before you do access your bitcoin cash, you will lose nothing if you do that so it is advisable :)

Thanks! Coinomi is iOS only, thus hesitation as I wanted to keep coin on computer instead. Also, I see they don't call out bitcoin cash on their supported coin area. They have weird names as Bitcoin Plus and Bitcoin Test.


Thank you for sharing Electron Cash review. Seems like that is somewhat stable, but not worth keeping there for too long.

Would one recommend keeping coins in Electron Cash wallet vs large exchange (maybe polonix) would would be more secure for somewhat longterm storage.

Although I can not help you, but the questions and answers here helped me understand a few problems. It is helpful information so I can do a better job. Sure, everyone here has the correct answer to the question you and you understand it.

wow thanks bro for your tutorial now i can get my Bitcoin Cash  ;D ;D

Thanks all! I am now in control of my BCH.

Let me share my experience.

After much debate, I finally decided to use Electron Cash 2.9.3.
1. Moved my BTC to new PC into new Electrum wallet.
2. Downloaded 2.9.3 electron cash.
3. When I first opened the electron cash wallet, since I had electrum configured previously, the wallet came with wallet_default (with 2fa) and logged me into my wallet. It quickly synchronized with BCH balance. I was quite happy with easy process. Yet, I tried to send my BCH to exchange, and I came with an error (error: The transaction was rejected by network rules. (16: mandatory-script-verify-flag-failed (Signature must use SIGHASH_FORKID))).

So I became quite concerned and my search around web continued. Ultimately I came across someone with same issue and long be hold, I was on way to a solution.

4. Move the wallet_default file from the electron cash folder to other folder on your computer.
5. Create brand new wallet, name it something different.
6. Then create new wallet using existing seed and disable 2fa (steps previously provided by escrow.ms ... Thanks!!)

This worked for me. I am sure many may have already described this before, but wanted to share this experience if noob like me is trying to work with electron cash wallet.

I still would like to know what people thing about storing BCH in electron cash wallet vs big exchange (which I feel like are less secure compared to wallet on computer)...any thoughts?

Is it really so difficult to follow the instructions?