Wow, this sounds waaaay to complicated for me to risk.

I think I'm just gonna keep my coins in legacy, and not touch the "2x"-coins until that team decides to implement replay protection.
I hope exchanges will reject their coin until they make it safe.

Or maybe Ledger will design a ready made application to safely split/send the 2x coins while keeping your BTC wallet untouched.

Ok, thanks for making this all clear.
You probably saved me from losing Bitcoins!  
At the same time i wonder how many non technical Bitcoin investors will be duped here. It will give crypto a bad rep once again  

I'm reading about this replay protection thing, or the lack of, and i'm beginning to see the problem now, i think

So if my newbie brain is getting this right:
Bitcoin core has no replay protection
Bitcoin S2x will have no replay protection.

If you have coins on both chains, and you send coins on one chain, there is a possibility you loose the same amount of coins on the other chain?

If i understand this right, this is a serious problem when holding both Bitcoin core and Bitcoin s2x...  

Oh man, this keeps getting more and more confusing.




You say it's not safe to get the free coins.
But you also say: if one has the private keys (like people with their coins on a ledger), you will get them automatically?
And you also mention: we will never be able to use them.

Every point you make is a contradiction to the previous  

Hmm, that's 2 different answers.... so there is obviously confusion over this...
I guess the safest would be to move my Bitcoins to the Legacy format then, just to make sure i can get the free coins.

I saw this video of how to split for bitcoin cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7_0m9aZrMo
I guess this is what BBZorton means with moving the new coins to a different wallet, right?

I've been in crypto not for long; in the beginning of september i bought some BTC, and put it on a Ledger.

My ledger asked me to choose between a segwit or legacy account, and i chose Segwit because word is that it's faster en has lower fees.
So now my balance shows up whenever i open my wallet as "Segwit", but when i choose "Legacy" the balance says 0 BTC.

With the upcoming fork in november, people are saying BTC holders get free coins of the newly created fork.

And I am wondering if it matters if the BTC wallet on the Ledger is in Legacy or Segwit mode to get these free new coins?
Because if it does,  i should transfer my BTC.

If searched the net like crazy, but nowhere i can find the answer to this...