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Hi, I found this a very hot topic recently so here's my quick and dirty guide how to get your BTG.
I will be using coinomi (android wallet) to get my BTG (but you can also use e.g. freewallet (https://freewallet.org/currency/btg)  ... the procedure is more or less same).
NOTE: This guide will not work with segwit addresses (begins with 3).
For other supported wallets check official BTG web https://bitcoingold.org (BEWARE: some malicious wallets found their way also to official BTG web, so doublecheck user feedbacks before trusting them with your money)

UPDATE: BTG SUCCESSFULLY CLAIMED (and partly sold). Thanks coinomi and ledger.

WARNING: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHICH WALLET YOU ARE GOING TO USE. EVEN THE OFFICIAL BTG WEBSITE PUBLISHED LINKS TO SCAM WALLETS.
I'm not going to investigate every single wallet you ask for. I already have mine BTG (used COINOMI). So please use COINOMI or do investigation on your own.

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Part 1 - Wallets you own the private keys ( tested with Electrum 2.9.3 and 3.0.2 )

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It's really simple (5 steps)

1 - Separate your BTC. Move them to brand new address ( this is to prevent losing your BTC if something went wrong, also your private key becomes compromised at the end of this guide) and stop using the old one

2 - wait for at least 5 confirmations (3 should be enough but more is better ... again due to security reasons)

3 - download and install coinomi https://coinomi.com/  (make proper backup etc.)

4 - in coinomi add new coin (BTG), find function "sweep" and scan QR code of your private key(s) ... this will create transaction(s) sending BTG from your address to coinomi
!!! PAY ATTENTION TO SWEEP INTO CORRECT WALLET OTHERWISE YOU CAN LOSE THEM ... GOOD IDEA IS TRYING SMALL AMOUNT FIRST AS A TEST !!!

5 - repeat second part of step 4 for every address you have BTG on ...  enjoy your coins  ;)

(doesn't work? refer to: https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000017747-i-can-t-sweep-my-btg-private-key )
(Find more detailed guide here: https://medium.com/@coinomi/collecting-your-free-bitcoin-gold-btg-coins-da937d4255d1 )

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Part 2 - Ledger HW wallet

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Follow this ultimate guide: https://ledger.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005456969-How-to-use-Bitcoin-Gold-with-Ledger
(successfully claimed as well)

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Part 3 - Mycelium users

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Refer to Flat.E insights:

or

follow this step-by-step guide: https://steemit.com/btc/@libert/step-by-step-guide-on-claiming-bitcoincash-from-mycellium-wallet-201783t112141477z




EDIT: If you think the guide too austere then please wait for some others.
I personally found this very easy (mostly due to experience with BCH fork) and do not feel it requires any special pictures, extra details etc. ( once you do it yourself I belive you'll find it simple as well ).

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Thank you for the tutorial, I only have one BTC at the time of the split, this easy way for me.
But keep in mind, transfer all BTC to another BTC address before proceeding to secure your BTC.

You're welcome.
And yes, moving the BTC first is ESSENTIAL. I consider it almost same importancy as paying attention to sweeping into correct wallet (step 5) and making proper wallet backup.

Just a side note: Rather than how many BTC you have is important how many addresses they are scattered over ( In case you have more of them you will need to do this procedure for each address individually).

If you have all (one) BTC in single address I'll recommend you to wait a little .. for other users to test it and post feedback or so. (as you have no option how to try it with smaller amount).

how long does transaction take from Step 5? I tried it, showed up fine, but never swept it. Kinda lost. wasn't much mind you like $40, but still upset if it doesn't go through. Swept it twice, no change in balance, maybe takes time? Perhaps my current private key and coinomi are not compatible?

Update: looks like BTG team is working on the integration of my current wallet. I will be back and try again in a few days. I wonder how all these people got their BTG gold already? IS there like a futures market for BTG? Weird.

This might come off as a stupid question, but one of my wallets only has around 0.4BTC. Would it still have the same amount of BTG? I was under the impression that only whole bitcoins will double.

Yes, you can claim 0.4 or 0.04 or 0.004 ... Whatever was on the BTC BlockChain is claimable.

Thanks for this tutorial. It does get the job done quick and dirty however it would be good to add whether or not the BTG blockchain is already live. Are you already able to claim then sell your BTG? I ask this because me and the guy i'm quoting below still can't access our BTG wallets.


Yes, you can check their website (bitcoingold.org) for a list of exchanges doing BTG futures.

Can i use seed key from electrum to clam BTG?

I moved my coins BTC coins to another wallet before doing this. But when i sweep my private key in Coinomi wallet,
the response says "The private key does not contain any funds". Why is this?

Did it not have any funds at the time of the split (last Monday)?

If the mainnet is not live, you won't be able to.

Is the Bitcoin Gold mainnet live?  According to their blog - https://bitcoingold.org/blog/ - they're still running the testnet, and the mainnet is still listed on their to-do list. [14:45 UCT]

Has anyone actually claimed BTG in their own wallet using the above instructions?  I.e. not simply selling/buying on an exchange without moving it out of the exchange?  If mainnet is not turned on, I don't think that would be possible.

How do I convert my electrum private keys into a QR code?

EDIT: used bitaddress.org i was able to do an individual private key into QR code.. however I got the same the private key does not contain any funds error (I had bitcoin in the wallet before the fork)

EDIT: actually might have worked.. I had to use the compressed private key QR code and not the normal one

most likely in your wallet there were no funds at the time of the hard-core that was on the 25th

Time depends on current (BTG) network load ... few minutes.
So you can't see any incoming transaction to coinomi BTG wallet?
What happened when you "confirm the key sweep". Have you seen message (address, BTG balance)?


I got my first BTG from bitfinex (if you had BTC balance they credited BTG to account right after the fork).


Not with coinomi. They support only individual private key formats (WIF, BIP38, mini ) if you have your BTG scattered among multiple addresses then you better wait for another wallet to implement BTG (idealy if electrum team decides to update).

Now i tried sweep wallet from electrum private key it show balance correctly but i confirm fund. there is no transaction to transfer to Coinomi wallet . I am waiting very long time to confirm. Can anyone suggest me ?

Finally..I bet a whole lot of people who have been in a hurry will be very excited right now. I think I'm gonna leave mine for now until I have figured out what to do next as I am currently worried about comprising myself. I am pretty sure we are going to see a whole lot of posts from people with keys being stolen. I don't want to be part of that statistic.

That's what I need. hope to succeed! But now the exchange do not allow to withdraw and deposit BTG! So what do I have to do?

I think the problem is applicable to every one because I also tried claiming using the sweep function from Electrum but after showing the balance it does not show up again but I guess its as a result of TestNet MainNet issue which I believe should be resolved very soon so that everyone can be happy although the BTG team are really working behind time to make this available. I hope this is not faced in the case of SegWit2x.

Thanks for this
It was really helpful

What a nice and simple guide, I tried the mobile wallet some time ago - but sadly no go, so maybe can try the desktop version now. Will update in time.

pre-snapshot i sent my coins to mycelilum

When I copy and paste my private key from mycelium into coinomi's sweep wallet i get the error "could not recognize the private key format"

coinomi does say supported formats wif, bip38, mini private key. and i thought i read elsewhere that mycelium uses bip44?


any tips or tricks or leads in the right direction?

My keys are not recognized. Has anyone recovered their BTG this way with Coinomi?

Yep, I did without issues. Doublecheck using the correct private key format.

Tried to import my key into Coinomi via the sweep function and its states that the address does not have any funds.

Confirmed on the explorer that it does have funds. Anyone else stuck here or have other options?

Which explorer you are using? The one at home page: https://bitcoingold.org   ??

Thanks for the guide.

Personalyl used coinomi to import my private keys and everything worked fine. Pretty much got my coins in my wallet and it was an easy process, would recommend others who have not done so already do it as well.

It's pretty much a free $150 at least per bitcoin you hold, if you don't claim it now then i think value may go down in future.

Good turiotal for sure. I could use this dirty way to make a good money. Thank you!

Yes

absolutely great Karma by OP many members already have some good free money we need members like this here on forum which give good help with tutorials on time for others keep this spirit up  ;D

Hmm, then I don't know what to do. Contact their support or try some other wallets ( freewallet is updated as well ).



Thanks. I'm glad to help and superhappy that at least some guys succeed with BTG claim.
 

Question, how did you sweep private keys from Electrum into Iconomi wallet? I have a list of many private keys from Electrum and I don't see an easy way as there is no QR code in Electrum.

It is. Right click address, Show prv. key. And there is a little button to show QR.
But I'm using electrum 2.9.3 (3.0 not working on my system) ... and I'm also not sure if coinomi will work with electrum 3.0 (as it is using different address format ... that might be reason why so many users had issues)

Hi when i have to keep bitcoin to receive bitcoin gold? i hold some bitcoin a week ago but i got nothing now.  :-[

BTG was credited to every address that held BTC at time of fork (snapshot was made 25.10.2017). So if you received your BTC later then you have no BTG.

Sweep and enter seed from mycelium to coinomi does not work, key format not recognized, however restore wallet from scratch in coinomi works right away with the same seed.

At first I set the derivation path when adding the btg coin in Coinomi to M/44H/0H/0H, no btg showed up. I added a second btg coin part in the same Coinomi but now without altering the derivation path and the coins showed up right away.

Thanks for info. I'll update OP with your insights.

Actually it works. Just exported BTG from Electrum 3.0.2 to coinomi. Thanks!!

I thank you for your feedback.
Just for sure. Did you used coinomi? (not Iconomi)

Yes, small typo :) Thanks again

OP says you just scan the QR code of your passphrase from Electrum, but that doesn't work in coinomi

is there any way to get electrum passphrase or private key to a coinomi wallet?


or could I take the private keys from electrum and import them to new BTG wallet? my electrum wallet has 162 private keys.....is there a faster way than adding them 1 by 1, or is there a way to figure out which private key has the BTG on it?

I didn't say to use your passphrase. I specficaly mention to use private keys.


Yes, there is. Just let your electrum to show you the QR of private key and scan it. But if you are using segwit address (begins with 3) it will not work.



This is also option but requires you to download BTG blockchain ... which I found unnecessary for most users.


I udestand my way is unhandy for claiming coins from multiple addresses (not my case, I have tracked where my BTCs were before the fork happened and then swept only those addresses).
I'm pretty sure there is an option how to claim coins from multiple privatekeys (using your wallet seed) but I don't know the specific procedure. If somobody is aware, feel free to share it and I will update the OP.

Does anybody else having the problem with Coinomi, that the 3 little dots on the right upper side (which when you click show the 'sweep' function) are not showing up? I can't sweep because next to the QR sign, there is nothing else.

No. I don't have 3 little dots there. I see only QR code icon (right after clicking the icon i can scan the code)
Using 5 inch cellphone.

So you can't sweep either or did you find another way to import the privkey?

I can sweep. I just click the QR icon, scan the code and thats it.

Which tab you are? Those 3 dost i see on receive tab (the share icon if thats what you mean). Go to balance tab instead and click the QR code icon (top right).

What you see there is 'share' sign, which has 3 dots connected with lines. What I want to do is import a privkey from the BTC wallet to import it into the BTG wallet. This should be done (in OP) by clicking on the 3 f....g dots and choose 'sweep'. I will try the qr sign and scan the privkey.

Yeah, I realized that. The above mentioned will work.

Scanning the privkey in Bitcoin Core is not possible. What did you use?

Bitcoin Core won't show you QR? I'm using electrum. I guess you have to trust some QR generator.

I have one installed luckily... Thanks Bitford

edit: That one worked. Thanks again!

You're welcome.

Is there any alternative if I was using a segwit address?

I'm not aware of any. But once I found out I'll update OP.

So if anybody knows feel free to reply here.

Can you explain why it will not work if I used segwit address?

I can't ( don't have required knowledge). Just my amateurish opinion. Segwit is using different address format and some additional coding has to be implemented by wallets (to undestand the address format). But devs obviously not so much hurry in. I can't tell why. maybe it's to much work, maybe they don't believe in segwit. Who knows.

just exported them from electrum 2.9.3.
thanks OP! ;D

Great, thanks for feedback.

The above mentioned site is most probably scam (please edit the link to not be clickable). I'm afraid you won't get your coins out of it.
As of the invalid error refer to: https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000017747-i-can-t-sweep-my-btg-private-key
But I suspect the private key provided to you is not the actual private key to that address.


Why did you used this service? There is so many red flags around (but I bet you found them through official BTG site ... those devs did really amateurish job IMO ... don't even cared about what they are publishing)
1 - the domain ... one of the cheapest domains available.
2 - there is no official announcement of such wallet ... do you think serious wallet creator would stay in silence?

I'm going to put a big warning into OP because this is too much.

EDIT: looks like I made a hurried conclusion ( see post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2463332.0 )
The site is not a wallet rather just address generator ... but I would still be cautious using them.

I don't have any android phone so I can't use coinomi wallet.

Is there any BTG wallet that let me import my private key from electrum?

Using the original BTG client. But since this one was also compromised by hacker I don't find it as a best solution. You would also need to download entire blockchain.
Aternatively you can use some android emulator.

Is there a lightweight client like ElectronCash? Strange nobody developed it yet...

Serious devs would make their own fork of electrum for their coin (but given the all issues around I'm not surprised this not happened) and third party devs are not interested to support this coin.

ELECTRUMSBTC.ORG  - 928KB -   950,272 bytes - Electrum-SBTC-2.9.3.exe
ELECTROCASH.ORG   - 945KB -   968,192 bytes - Electron-Cash-3.0.exe
ELECTRUMGOLD.ORG  - 1.3MB - 1,380,864 bytes - Electrum-Gold-2.9.3.exe
ELECTRUMB2X.ORG   - 1.2MB - 1,273,856 bytes - Electrum-B2X-2.9.3.exe

They are all copies of:  https://electrongold.org/

All websites that are broken and not linked to original project or supported by the projects.
Also with fake links / unclickable.  But, all have fake clients at only 1MB executable files.

Note:  The image shows the same text for each wallet info.  Sites are IDENTICAL except for the coin name.

All registered to various name/addresses via ilovewww.com; however, all using China DNS
Name Server: NS1.IPCHINA163.COM
Name Server: NS2.IPCHINA163.COM


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