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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: Dido.el on December 16, 2017, 02:03:21 AM



Title: Electrum and Bitcoin hard forks
Post by: Dido.el on December 16, 2017, 02:03:21 AM
Hello guys did Electrum will support  next bitcoin hard forks : LBTC SBTC.......?
i don't know what wallet to use to get the forks coin


Title: Re: Electrum and Bitcoin hard forks
Post by: jackg on December 16, 2017, 02:12:45 AM
Hello guys did Electrum will support  next bitcoin hard forks : LBTC SBTC.......?
i don't know what wallet to use to get the forks coin

Electrum doesn't support any coins, it is a bitcoin mainchain client. Thus, it does not support nor produce the appa for the forked coin.
Software like electron cash is based off electrum's code as electrum's code was released without copyright restrictions.
For a wallet for the forked coins, I have seen coinomi is quite popular among users here (I haven't personally used it though).


Title: Re: Electrum and Bitcoin hard forks
Post by: TryNinja on December 16, 2017, 02:14:48 AM
No. Electrum will probably never support any Bitcoin fork.

In this case, you will need to import your private-keys in a wallet that supports the fork which coins you want to spend. In some cases, there may be an unofficial third party Electrum fork for those coins. For example, after the Bitcoin Cash release, a dev forked the Electrum wallet and made it compatible with Bitcoin Cash.

Check the fork's website for compatible wallets. They will probably link the ones you should use.


Title: Re: Electrum and Bitcoin hard forks
Post by: Dido.el on December 16, 2017, 02:24:08 AM
Thank you very much guys that was really helpfull