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Hi guys,

Long-time BTC user and miner (5x Radeon rig -> BFL Bitforce -> BFL ASIC 60 -> Cointerra TerraMiner IV) here. I dabbled in LTC when it first came out, but have largely ignored the other coins. I'm finally getting around to separating the hard-fork BCH and BSV.

After no small amount of boondogglery, I was able to get my BCH from the Bitcoin-ABC client by importing my original BTC private keys. I've since transferred all of it to a new wallet since the imported-keys-wallet would require a rescan on every launch.

However, I can't seem to figure out how to get my BSV. I tried importing my original BTC private keys into the ElectrumSV, but it's showing a zero balance.

I've tried the Atomic Wallet, but it apparently doesn't support importing private keys. I'm assuming I should be importing the original BTC wallet keys.

Any pointers would be appreciated. I must be making this harder than it is, because it shouldn't be this hard.

(Just found out about BTG, but doubt it's worth my time for $22.)

Thanks.

You've got it wrong, Bitcoin SV isn't a fork of bitcoin but it's a fork of Bitcoin Cash ABC also known as BCH.

Nope, you should import the bitcoin cash wallet key not the original bitcoin.

Check this guide: How to Claim free BCH-SV forked coin and How to Exchange into Bitcoin? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5070999.0)

For posterity's sake, I figured I'd checking and post the resolution.

First, since BSV is a fork of BCH, which was a fork of BTC, BTC addresses/keys are indeed valid in the BSV blockchain if they were generated prior to the BCH fork.

After much trial and error with multiple clients, the simplest way I found to get the forked coins was to import the compressed WIF key from the original BTC wallet into AtomicWallet v1.39.1 (which still supports importing keys). I had originally attempted to import the uncompressed keys, but Atomic always reported that there wasn't enough to cover network fees, so I just assumed it wouldn't work. When I later tried the compressed key, the coins showed up right away.

I ended up exchanging the BSV for BTC in Atomic. It was probably not the best exchange rate, but based on the going BSV rate, I wasn't going to go through any additional goat rope for a few pennies.

There are other ways of doing it, but all of them were more involved. As a guy that's been into Bitcoin as long as I have, I'm sure there are thousands upon thousands of BCH and BSV coins that will be forever unclaimed.