What you need to realise is that when people say "you should so this" or "you should do that" or "it's OK to do this"... they are speaking from their point of view, and their own personal level of risk acceptance. It also seems that you a confusing the ability to do something with whether or not it is a safe thing to do... You ask "can I do X?"... when I think what you really mean is "should I do X?"

For instance:

CAN I use Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold on the same computer?
Technically... Yes. There is nothing stopping you from running a Bitcoin wallet, a Bitcoin Cash wallet and a Bitcoin Gold wallet on the same computer.


SHOULD I use Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold on the same computer?
That depends on a number of factors... do you have access to multiple computers or do you have one computer? do you value security more than convenience or do you just want your fork coins? are you extremely risk averse or you'll accept some risk to get things sorted quickly and easily?



The short version of getting your Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold goes something like this:

1. Move ALL your Bitcoin from your current Electrum wallet to a completely new Electrum wallet.
2. Use ElectronCash with your OLD (and now empty) Electrum wallet to get Bitcoin Cash.
3. Use [Some Bitcoin Gold Wallet] with the private keys from OLD (and now empty) Electrum wallet to get Bitcoin Gold


Now, people will recommend you take "appropriate" precautions to ensure safety of your coins like using a separate computer for each currency or using offline wallets etc... but none of that is REQUIRED to be able to get BCH and/or BTG... it is only RECOMMENDED to help minimise risk.


No, you can use the "Bluestacks" Android emulator and run Coinomi on that...

The "fear" around ElectronCash stealing your BTC is pretty much unfounded. At the time, it was relatively unknown and untrusted. I have been running Electrum and ElectronCash side by side on the same computer for months. I have not lost a single satoshi

ElectronCash is perfectly safe... Provided you get it from the official website (just like Electrum, there are a lot of fake copycat sites offering fake versions)...

Electrum: https://electrum.org/#download
ElectronCash: https://electroncash.org/#download

Getting BitcoinGold is slightly more complicated as there isn't an "Electrum Clone" for BitcoinGold at the moment... you need to export the private keys and import them into a BTG wallet like Coinomi or BitcoinGold Core etc... be VERY careful with BTG wallets... there are a LOT of scams involving BTG.

Most other wallets and services will most likely NOT be able to send to an Electrum SegWit wallet... Electrum uses "bech32" address that start "bc1"... As far as I'm aware, Electrum is the ONLY wallet that currently supports this address type. You should be able to send FROM your Electrum SegWit wallet to other wallets just fine.

Other wallets use the "3" type addresses for their SegWit implementations, which pretty much ALL wallets should be able to send to.

Your ORIGINAL transaction shows as being double spent... but technically, that transaction is no longer valid, as the inputs have been used by the confirmed transaction.

If you look at other block explorers, it either doesn't exist (they dropped it)... or it shows as "removed": https://btc.com/91e841994f648767a07ab8b19ceffd4fa7cdf3de727227c2707ff01d9489d970 to indicate that it was effectively superseded by your new transaction with the higher fee.

The simple solution is: Don't worry about it. Your new transaction got confirmed... everything is fine

Honestly, without being able to see all your addresses/transactionIDs, it's very difficult to say why your balance is not showing up correctly. It could be that your wallet isn't synced properly, it could be that the balance IS correct but you mistakenly think you should have more.

It could also be that you've selected "show history rates" in (Tools -> Preferences -> Fiat) menu... this will show the value of transactions based on the BTC to $ rate at the time/date that the transaction occurred... not current rate.

I would recommend that you ONLY upgrade as far as v2.9.3... just to make the next step easier, as I'm not 100% sure that ElectronCash v2.9.4 will play nicely with a v3 wallet.

You should restore your 2FA in ELECTRUM... disabling 2FA functionality during the restore... then you should be able to open that wallet using ElectronCash... as it is disabled, it will have two of the 3 private keys and you'll be able to create/sign the appropriate BCH transactions.


This won't work... as Abdussamad has pointed out, you can't just export your private keys from an Electrum 2FA wallet and import them into Coinomi to get BTG... instead you need to follow a process like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2550529.0

Yes... it really IS that long and complicated... PLUS you need to have BitcoinGold Core downloaded and synced for it to work.

Maybe you've set Electrum to only spend confirmed coins

Tools -> Preferences -> Transactions -> UNCHECK "spend only from confirmed coins":

A BTG wallet is tiny... maybe 1 megabyte or so... the BTG blockchain however is currently running around 150+ Gigs of storage... but just like BTC, you can store it on an external USB drive. Although I suspect that a chromebook maybe be somewhat slow syncing up as it probably lacks a little in the CPU department.

It isn't a change address... I am about 99.99% certain that you have an Electrum "2FA" wallet (there should be text that says [2fa] in the titlebar)... am I correct?

What that 0.01 BTC charge is... is the payment to TrustedCoin to prepay for 100 2FA "credits". If you click the little blue shield in the bottom right corner of the Electrum window, you'll see you now have 99 credits left (your transaction would have used 1 credit):



You can read more here: https://api.trustedcoin.com/#/electrum-help

NOTE: The TrustedCoin fees recently changed... So, that is the reason you got charged 0.01 and not 0.005... it used to be 0.01 for 100 credits.

That log looks pretty "clean"... it shows that it is using your G:\Bitcoin directory (or at least it is attempting to use it)... can you post the dbLog.txt as well? Given the lack of obvious issues with the Armory log... I suspect that is where the issue lies.

no, that is not a bitcoin rule... that is some rule that has been implemented by whatever service you were attempting to send coins to. As evidenced by the fact that the Bitcoin network accepted your transaction and confirmed it.

The network has no idea of the receiver is going to "ignore"  transactions or not

 the Armory log will show exactly where it is looking for your blocks and how it is invoking armoryDB... the armory db log will allow us to see if armoryDB has any problems reading the blocks etc... without this information we have no idea what exactly your issue is.

posting the last 10 lines of the log doesn't help at all... if they're too big for pastebin, delete your log files, start Armory again and then post the new logs via pastebin.

In a word... Yes.

This is why sometimes you can see your unconfirmed transaction on some blockexplorers and not others... because the blockexplorer that isn't showing your transaction does not have your transaction in it's mempool... (either not received or dropped etc)

Did you try to accelerate YOUR transaction or the unconfirmed parent transaction that I linked?

ViaBTC won't "see" your transaction because it has an unconfirmed parent... so you will get "transaction does not exisit" error if you try to accelerate YOUR transaction. Try and accelerate the unconfirmed parent (b373fd677f6b30d8e01a1e2d6d9b923e97b863203f8652a8a015af38d27ed379) first... once that transaction has at least 1 confirmation, ViaBTC will let you try and accelerate YOUR transaction.

That transaction is confirmed. So the bitcoins (which I assume you sent to 1D9NkS41CYeoTPXVcQ71kW2L9PqMiC8xXW because it is the only 0.01 output) have definitely been sent to that address.

Bitcoin transactions are NOT able to be cancelled and are NOT reversible. The only way you're going to get this resolved is to contact the person you sent the coins to and ask them how you can fix this (either by sending them more BTC or for them to refund your BTC). No one here can help you.

No one can accelerate that transaction... it is spending the output from an unconfirmed parent: https://blockchain.info/tx/b373fd677f6b30d8e01a1e2d6d9b923e97b863203f8652a8a015af38d27ed379

Until the parent confirms, your transaction cannot be confirmed.
 

The most common ones are:

m/44'/0'/0'
m/0'/0
m/0'
m/0

You might want to also look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1000544.0

One thing to remember... do you know if the address you're looking for was a "receive" address or a "change" address? If it is a "change" address, you may need to make sure that the "External/Internal" part of the derivation path is set to "1".

Firstly... awesome effort to write this all out! I had considered doing the same... but I'm in a middle of a 4 day rotation of 12 hour shifts so just haven't had time

Secondly, I ran into a situation where a user had asked for my assistance, and they had their BTG spread across multiple inputs on multiple addresses (2 inputs on a receive, 1 input on a change address).

I know it complicates things a little, but have you thought about typing up a section on how to move ALL the inputs from ALL the addresses in ONE transaction?

I have sent you a PM regarding this matter.

For the record, it sounds like you're trying to run PyWallet by double clicking on the pywallet.py file in Windows correct? You cannot do that... you need to run it from the commandline. You might like to also check out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2398504.0

I helped another user get pywallet installed and running in that thread... you might find some useful info there.

I'm confused... isn't that what the password and login link are for? accessing the wallet?

In all honesty, if that login link it isn't working... then the only people who are going to be able to help you are Blockchain.Info support who will be able to guide you on how to regain access to your wallet.

As far as I know, the 17 word mnemonic does not allow you to recover the wallet as such, it was only a "password recovery" system.