OK thanks guys!

I really appreciate the help! There'll be a delay after removing the BTC from the wallet whilst we make sure there are no more incoming payments. So I'll read up on the replay protection you have mentioned before attempting to retrieve the BCH.

Thanks again!

Ant

Hello,

Thank you for the information.

I am sorry but I am a little confused when LoyceV says

"Assuming you didn't hit the 10,000 transaction limit, this should work. Note that you should consider the private key compromised after importing it into another wallet, so you shouldn't use it to receive Bitcoin again."

Do you mean in regards to retrieving the BCH payments?

We have most certainly gone over the 10,000 BTC transactions which is the cause of our current issues. Do you mean this may cause an issue with retrieving our BTC through BitCoin Core or is this in reference to Electron Cash perhaps having a 10,000 BCH transaction limit? We have only received 50 or so BCH payments.

Thank you for your help and time.

Ant

Thanks Mocacinno!

BitCoin Core is currently synching so we will import the private key into that once ready and move those BTC out and then will attempt to import the private key into Electron Cash wallet.

I will update if any issues.

Hope you have a great rest of the week!

Ant

Thanks Mocacinno!

The BTC wallet with the issue was first used on 28th December 2017.

Since then we have received various BCH payments into it (sent to the BTC wallet)

As the BCH fork was apparently 1 August 2017 which is before this date, should we still be able to retrieve the BCH that has been sent to the BTC wallet since then?

Thank you for your help and time!

Ant

Thank you everyone for your responses and suggestions!

I think the best bet is to download BitCoin Core and import the private key and so I will go ahead with downloading that over the next few days.

On a sidenote, we have received various BCH payments into the BTC wallet.

Once I have imported the private key into BitCoin Core and transferred the BTC out. Can I do a similar thing with a BCH wallet to claim the BCH that was sent to the BTC wallet?

Thanks!

Ant

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

I am not very knowledgeable unfortunately regarding BitCoin despite receiving / sending transactions for quite a long time.

We have only used 1 address to receive payments if that makes any difference.

BitCoin Core is this - https://bitcoin.org/en/download ?

This would then I think mean that all the information from the blockchain would be stored locally and therefore the synchronising would no longer be an issue as BitCoin core would simply read the info from the hard drive?

Is it moderately simple to achieve this?

I would download BitCoin Core to my PC and then somehow import my existing Electrum wallet into BitCoin Core?

Thank you again for your help and time.

Regards,
Anthony

Bitcoin Client Software and Version Number: Electrum 4.1.2
Operating System: Windows 10
System Hardware Specs:
Description of Problem:

I am having an issue in that our Electrum Wallet fails to synchronise. After looking at the logs it seems to be disconnecting due to the numbers of transactions in the history.

I have read there are some Electrum nodes with higher than the default amount of history limit which I gather is 10,000. I am hoping to use one of these nodes to synchronise and move the BTC across to another wallet.

any information or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your help and time.


Any Related Addresses:
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Screenshot of the problem:
Log Files from the Bitcoin Client:

20210512T155418.460037Z |    ERROR | interface.[electrum.stippy.com:50002] | disconnecting due to GracefulDisconnect(RPCError(1, 'history too large'))