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I have my BTC in paper wallet at the time of fork will i get BTC gold?

Don't worry you will get them if you own private key for that wallet.

That is correct, however, to "cash out" the bitcoin gold without compromising your paper wallet you'll have to jump trough several hoops.
If you ever decide to "cash out" the bitcoin gold, it might be a good idear to sweep the paper wallet into a different bitcoin wallet, wait untill the sweeping transaction has confirmed, and afterwards (and only afterwards) import the private key from your paper wallet into a bitcoin gold compatible wallet.

As soon as your private key is entered in either wallet, your paper wallet must be marked as compromised. As soon as the bitcoin and bitcoin gold are spent, discard and never re-use the paper wallet again... Instead, making a new paper wallet to transfer your BTC to might be a good idear.

This instructions should be followed, don't import your private keys if your private keys still have the funds and bitcoin on it. And once you imported the private keys to any wallet that's compatible to bitcoin gold, dont ever use the private keys again.

Yes, If you use Bitcoin paper wallet you can still receive an equal amount of Bitcoin Gold of your total Bitcoin holdings as long as you have your private key. After the hard fork, to be able to access it you will need to sweep your private key (which are printed on your paper wallet) in a Bitcoin Gold wallet that supports it, Coinomi and Electrum wallet lets you sweep private key but I don't know if Electrum will support it or just wait for some announcement on how you can access your free Bitcoin Gold.

these are mandatory steps not just a "good idea" at this point. because bitcoin gold fork does NOT have a replay protection until now that we are talking and the fork takes place in about 118 more blocks (less than 19 hours)

edit: this fork just gets more and more funny
https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/pull/62 26 minutes ago. is this the last minute fork or what, nothing seems to be ready for this fork :D
there are still compile errors too!

Thanks for the explanation. But is this process affecting in any way the legacy block chain?

Let's suppose I have 1 BTC in bitcoin core address 'A'. I keep it until block number 491407 (bitcoin gold fork).
After this passed (let's say after 6 blocks in about 1 hour), I transfer out the 1 BTC to another address I own 'B'. After this is done, I will get the private key of 'A' address and store it so if needed, I can claim the 1 BTG using this private key.

First question:
- since replay protection is not implemented (at least no information about this), are there any risks of sending out the 1 BTC to another address 1 hour after the fork? Is there any risk of loosing the 1 BTC?
Second question:
- when and if I will import the 'A' address private key to a BTG wallet are there any risks? Is there a possibility that I will not get the 1 BTG? Or is it affecting somehow the already sent out 1 BTC to my 'B' address?

Thanks for the clarifications in advance.

it doesn't matter where you have your bitcoin, as long as you hold the privatekey you will have the right to claim your forked coins, that same privatekey can be used for all the future fork of bitcoin that do the 1:1 swap

Well, let's start from the bitcoin point of view.
You funded your paper wallet's address A. It has one unspent output in the UTXO set before the fork.
After the fork happened, you create a transaction that funds address B, using the unspent outputs from A (and signed with the pk on your paper wallet) and wait untill said transaction is confirmed.

At this point, address B is funded. No risks (if you used a clean PC and took all usual precautions you normally take when sweeping paper wallets).

Now, let's look at the bitcoin gold (from now on, i'll say BCG) point of view: what happens AFTER you broadcasted the above transaction on the bitcoin network.
There are 2 possibility's:

• either the transaction that was broadcasted on the bitcoin network is replayed on the BCG network, either by accident, by design or by someone bad. In this case, you end up with the same situation where you started from: you have a private key/public key/address (address B, since all unspent outputs for A would have been spent: on the bitcoin network they were spent by you, on the BCG network they were spent by the replay attack) that is valid on BCG and bitcoin network, and the address is funded. You have  to start over. If people keep replaying bitcoin transactions on the BCG network, you'll be stuck in a loop
• OR, the transaction was not broadcasted on the BCG network, you are now free to import the private key for address A into a BCG wallet. There are no unspent outputs in bitcoin's UTXO that can be spend on the bitcoin network, but there are unspent outputs on the BCG network, so you can now safely spend them without risks for a replay attack. If you spend BCG unspent outputs to address A by funding address C, and somebody tried to replay this transaction, it wouldn't work, since on the bitcoin network those unspent outputs would not be in the UTXO set, since they were used to fund address B. The replaying transaction on the bitcoin network would be invalid

Yes, don't be dumb please. as long as you hold your private keys you can sue it to redeem or get your bitcoin gold amount, same amount as you have on the wallet, do not expect that you will get bitcoin gold if you don't have any balance on your paper wallet.

So to summarize. If after fork, I send out the 1 BTC to another address 'B', my BTC can not be compromised anyway. Even if later I claim the 1 free BTG using my private key from address 'A'. Right?
However, after I import private key of 'A' address to a BTG wallet, it is possible that I won't see the 1 BTG because it has been replayed and already sent to address 'B', right?

Is it safe to declare that if you import to BTG a private key of a BTC wallet that has no funds on it, your BTC will always be safe, the only risk is with your BTG funds?

As far as i can tell, this statement is correct.
If the private key only controlls unspent outputs on the BTG chain, you have no BTC at risk.

Yes, but you have to ask yourself if it's worth the trouble to compromise your cold storage (and the privacy thereof) to get this altcoin airdrop. The developer team comes off quite pathetic; they are pre-mining the chain. That's why it's not a "fork" in the sense of "update" but it's rather just a snapshot of the blockchain underlying a new altcoin.

The developers haven't been able to add replay protection successfully thus far (there is an open bounty for it with payment coming from the pre-mine), which doesn't bode well for the project. I'm guessing there will be a quick spike in price when it launches due to initial illiquidity, but long term I think project is dead in the water.

it's in a couple of days and they're still having conversations like this?

i think people are gonna feel like assholes when this fork turns out to be a junk non event and they bid up bitcoin for nothing.

Well, at least, they have pumped up BTC price with the high demand, caused by the rush for BTC to get the BTG after the fork... Poor alts, they're suffering, but at least, we can buy them back cheaper in the very minute the fork has happened and people has not started to diversify their BTC again into the alts
To be on topic: The above mentioned advices should stand for all the forks, despite of the new alts has replay protection or not, just to be on the safe side.

This fork is helped those who are waiting to sell their bitcoins for a high price. Even I sold some coins for a good price i am satisfied for my trade. If i keep that coins, i may get new coin as a free, but i don't have trust on the new coin. Maybe after this fork people those who bought bitcoins at a high price they will feel bad.

You can also avail of the BTC Gold as long as you have the key to your paper wallet. But there just some complications since you need to follow the rules of the  fork. If you have read the rules then you are good to go but if you are tired of reading and wanted to play safe you can deposit your bitcoin to yobit or any of the exchanges that support bitcoin gold before the fork. Then after the fork you can just return it again to your paper wallet for safe keeping.

Of course it's worth it. No matter if its a premined coin it's still got a lot of exposure and will be worth something in the first few days which will be worth selling.

You can but you need to be really careful, especially if they dont go through with the level of replay protection they are claiming. Dont risk all your coins for a 2% boost.

Yes you can as long as you have had your Bitcoin before the Bitcoin Gold hardfork has occurred. But make sure that you really the the private key with you, if you don't have the private key with you then such a shame, you won't be able to get your Bitcoin Gold.

You can also avail of the BTC Gold as long as you have the key to your paper wallet. But there just some complications since you need to follow the rules of the  fork. If you have read the rules then you are good to go but if you are tired of reading and wanted to play safe you can deposit your bitcoin to yobit or any of the exchanges that support bitcoin gold before the fork. Then after the fork you can just return it again to your paper wallet for safe keeping.

Yes, until you hold the bullet, you can sell it or get a gold deer. Do not expect that you will get Bitcoin gold
Moneybags do not have the balance of your paper.

In which Bitcoin Gold wallet can I import my private key to access my BTG?

I don't want to download Bitcoin Gold Core.

Can I do this with any other wallet?

Please look up all the forks of bitcoin and when they occurred before discarding any paper wallet!  You my be very surprised to find you are entitled to about 8 to 10  different forked coins!  Here is what i found.
Bitcoin Cash: Forked at Block 478558[4], 1 August 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCH
Bytether: Cross fork from Bitcoin to Ethereum blockchain at block 478558, 1 August 2017. For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTH ERC-20 token.
Bitcoin Clashic: Forked at Block 478558[5], 1 August 2017. For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCHC / BCL
Bitcoin Gold: Forked at Block 491407[6], 24 October 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTG
UnitedBitcoin: Forked at Block 498777[7], 12 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 UB.
Bitcoin Diamond: Forked at Block 495866[8], 24 November 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 10 BCD
Bitcoin Hot: Forked at Block 498848[9], 12 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 100 BTH
Super Bitcoin: Forked at Block 498888, 12 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 SBTC
BitcoinX: Forked at Block 498888[10], 12 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 10,000 BCX
Oil Bitcoin: Forked at Block 498888, 12 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 OBTC
Bitcoin World: Forked at Block 499777, 17 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 10000 BTW
Lightning Bitcoin: Forked at Block 499999, 19 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 LBTC
Bitcoin Stake: Forked at Block 499999, 19 December 2017, For each 1 BTC, you get 100 BTCS
Bitcoin Faith: Forked at Block 500000, 19 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTF
Bitcoin Top: Forked at Block 501118, 26 December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTT
Bitcoin God: Forked at Block 501225, forked on 27th December 2017. For each 1 BTC you get 1 GOD
Bitcoin FILE: Forked at Block 501225, forked on 27th December 2017. For each 1 BTC you get 1000 BIFI
Bitcoin SegWit2X X11 Not to be confused with a previous fork SegWit2X with the same name. Forked at Block 501451, 28 December 2017. For each 1 BTC you get 1 B2X
Bitcoin Uranium: Forking on 31st December 2017, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BUM.
Bitcoin Pizza: Forking at Block 501888, 1st January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BPA
Bitcoin All: Forking on 1st January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTA. Referenced on steemit post.
Bitcoin Cash Plus: Forking at Block 501407, Expected on 2nd of January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCP
Bitcoin Smart: Forking at Block 505050, 21 January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 100 BCS
Bitcoin Interest: Forking at Block 505083, 22 January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCI
Quantum Bitcoin: Forking on 28th January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 QBTC
Bitcoin LITE: Forking on 30th January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTCL
Bitcoin Ore: Forking on 31st January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCO
Bitcoin Private: Forking TBA in January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BTCP (also if you have 1 ZCL you get 1 BTCP)
Bitcoin ATOM: Forking TBA in January 2018, For each 1 BTC you get 1 BCA
Proposed (but cancelled) coin splits[edit]
SegWit2x: This was a planned coin split of the digital currency Bitcoin, which was later canceled before the split could take place.

You need your privet key and you have no problem to get the bitcoin gold, doesn't matter which wallet you have.

Guys, you seriously need to stop posting in here, the OP has already said that he wants to claim his bitcoin gold from his bitcoins and that is not difficult at all! I dont know why you posted more than 10's of solutions in here.

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Just stop spamming, the only thing that he needs to do is just export his private key to a compatible wallet such as trezor, and you will receive them right after away you do it.

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Or Just in binance too, and remember that you will receive dozens of forks that have been created/forked during the last two months.