Well... I did well until I got to step 4 and I tried all of the private keys that I thought would work. I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong. I understand that I need to bring up the console within Bitcoin Core application and sign in with my passphrase. I went to transaction history and found the original address for the wallet that I had sent to from the exchange I purchased from originally. Then I pasted into the console the address that I initially had received my BTC (which was well before the fork) within the dumpprivkey "address " This gives me the private key of that address, which is what I'm then supposed to enter into wallet>private keys>sweep. However, when I do that, it responds with "No Inputs Found!" Where did I go wrong, and what do I have to do to figure this out?

I think it was the fact that I had left my Electrum running for two weeks played a part. The problem is, my Bitcoin Core crashed and I had to download the WHOLE blockchain again before I could access my BTC, so I sat around waiting for that to happen.

The link is in the quoted section that I pasted within this thread.

I found a recommendation in that topic, which recommended trying different networks. I think ultimately I was connected to an out-of-date server that I had drawn weeks ago when I first downloaded Electrum wallet. When I toggled the auto-connect off and restarted I was paired up with a fresh server upon turning auto-connect back on.

Here are the exact steps I followed to get a resolution:
1. Go to network, and de-selected the automatically connect to network.
2. Force quit Electrum
3. Restart Electrum
4. Go to network, re-select automatically connect to network.

After that, the transaction posted immediately. Thanks

Yes, the address I sent my BTC to is in the Electrum application, and the receiving address was inside of the receiving tab, right where it says: "Receiving address:"


Yep totally missed it (not used to a Mac) but then found it. I did an ismine("address") in the command line and it said true for the address I copied from electrum. I'm 99.9999% sure I used the right address. I checked it multiple times and had my wife check it forwards and backwards.


I downloaded Electrum from https://electrum.org/#download.

I don't see anything in the History tab and the Receive tab has the status as pending for those requested funds.
I don't see any drop down to access the "console" - there are only 3 tabs, History, Send and Receive. in the Right lower corner there are four icons. Network (I'm connected to three nodes.) Seed (where I can enter my password to review my seed info) Preferences (I don't understand most of this) and Password (where I can change my password.)

I recently decided to upgrade computers and sent BTC from my old BTC Core to an Electrum wallet on the new machine. I confirmed the address about seven times, twice with a second person, then hit send. I then went to my new Electrum wallet and put in the amount to be received about 1 minute later. As of 12 hours, I still don't see it in my Electrum wallet, but checking on blockchain, I see that the transaction has been confirmed >60 times. I have the most recent build directly from the Electrum website, running on a Mac. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks, that's very clear and straightforward.

Do you think I should I be running Electrum and Electron Cash on the same machine that I'm using for every day life? Or should I immediately get the keys and addresses for my new BTC and then delete Electrum?

So my situation is this - my old computer can barely function. As mentioned previously, I have my .dat files backed up, and my addresses/seeds written down on paper. I was hoping to use my new Mac to use the BCH for fun/trading, and HODL my BTC 'til moon or bust. If I understand correctly, I should consider  doing this:
- Download Electrum onto my Mac, create a new "standard wallet", send all my BTC to it from the old computer, then erase my Bitcoin Core from the old computer. Then go about getting my BCH into Electron Cash using option #3 that I mentioned before.

I have the original Bitcoin Core.

I thought that BCH has a separate address thats related to its forked BTC address, is that not true?

Since the fork I've only sent a small amount of BTC once - that's not going to mess with my attempts to claim the BCH, right?

HI all, this is my first post here - I'm hoping you can steer me away from disaster before I bumble into something I don't fully understand. I've been searching through the boards but haven't found a really convincing and reliable post about claiming/retrieving BCC for someone in my situation. I had found a good topic on this site somewhere that had recommended Electrum, and then the link on that thread led me to a bad URL and the downloaded wallet had some trojans in it, so I'm extra wary. One good thing about the post is it at least helped me to figure out what my BCC seed is.

I've got some BTC on an old computer I rarely use, backed up on a couple of external hardware devices, and I've got my seed and keys written down in a safe spot. I'd rather not load by BTC to Electron Cash wallet, and just keep it in this kind of cold storage for now, but I want to start using my BCC.

To start with, I downloaded the Electron-Cash wallet from electroncash dot org (linked from the official bitcoincash dot org site) in order to make sure that I got the proper, non-malicious software. I'm running this operation on a Mac just as an FYI.

Once the Electron-Cash wallet is downloaded, I have the options to create "standard wallet", "multi-signature wallet" or "import bitcoin address or private keys."

Which of these options would work for my purposes? I'm assuming it's the 3rd option to "import", but I wanted to see what the community advised. Also, if anyone else has any warnings, cautions, suggestions, I'd appreciate them. Thanks!