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Hi dear people.

Because it did sound scary and complicated, I did not take part of the forks to Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold, with the few bitcoins I bought long time ago.
Now I wonder, if it is too late to do it.

And: how complicated it is to do so.
Or: where to find an explanation for an old lady. I am an old lady :)

Thanks!

No one cares if your an old lady or not you would not get any sympathy for that or would you be accorded what you don't merit. It's never too late to partake in bitcoin or any of bitcoins fork example bitcoin cash or gold. You can always invest

Thanks dear.

My reason to mention that I am an old lady is not to get sympathie. Then it would be probably better to say that I'm a hot young lady :D
I mention it in the hope to get simple answers, with not too complicated technical words into it.

Dear Kingpin: do you know where to find a explanation to take part of the fork?
Thanks!

Just google it and you will find many many websites explaning it.

For example, i made this post long ago explaining how to claim many of them
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3064698.msg31577013#msg31577013

Well, obviously you are not an old lady, which makes me wonder why you would say that?

But, whatever, to each their own.
So the good news is, yes you can, IF you still have your btc in the same wallet (an you have your key of course) as when the fork went live.
But, I'm not 100% sure, just 90% sure.
I had a friend who claimed his btc gold four months after and this isn't a time limit or special sale/promotion type of thing.

When someone forks the blockchain, it is basically creating a mirror of the original blockchain with adjusted cryptography going forward from the day it was forked.
That means that there a "dual copy" of sorts of the blocks up until the day it is forked.
So if you had 5 btc on the original btc blockchain, and someone forks btc, you still have that 5btc and also the mirror copy on that forked chain.

And the way blockchain works is your coins never disappear.

So, long story short, yes, I think you can get them.
Just google how to claim btc gold or whatever and you should find detailed faqs on how to do it.

Thanks dear chocopapaya,

thanks for your answer.

2 questions still:
- I did move some btc form my wallet to a stick. If was after the fork I guess. Does this change something?

- in the explanation to claim coins, it is usually mentioned to move the coins before to another wallet. Does this not compromise the claim? This seems very confusing to me. And if the coins are on a stick, and this moving the coins is OK, do these coins need to be moved too? Is the stick then still safe?

Thanks!

It is never late for Bitcoin Cash!  ;) Although you missed the fork, you can buy Bitcoin Cash (or Gold if you want) on majority of crypto exchanges. I think there are quite nice prospects of earning from BCH.

it is worth mentioning that it is already too late for about half of them to be claimed because they are dead now and there is no longer any chain. there ever were cases where the forkcoin lasted less than a week before disappearing and be delisted from the exchanges so don't bother with them.

for others that have lasted this long, despite their drastic price drop, it is not too late to claim them. but be careful what wallet you install if you don't want to be infected with some malware and also make sure to first empty your keys from bitcoin and then try claiming these shitcoins.