From what you've said, it sounds like you are fine for the airdrop (and by the way, it's an extra 20%, not 10%, as well as airdrop blackbytes). As with most cryptocurrency wallets, your Byteball wallet can create a large number of addresses, all of which belong to you. Your wallet adds up the balances in all of these addresses to report your total balance. But the important thing for the airdrop is the "linked" addresses that the Transition Bot listed for you. The address your wallet gives you in the receive menu is just a new address for improved privacy, but if it holds any bytes for you, you should either link that new address using the Transition Bot, or send any bytes from there to an existing linked address before the airdrop to get your blackbytes.

You've said the balance in "address1" is your correct total balance, so unless you receive more funds before the airdrop, you are all set. You do not need to move your balance to "address1", it's already there.

Actually, this doesn't matter if you're speaking of just Bytes (GB or GBYTES, is the typical unit). You just need the wallet seed, you don't even need to have a wallet installed anywhere, since your Bytes are stored in the DAG (the Byteball data structure that is similar to a block chain in most conventional crytpos). As long as you already own some Bytes before the airdrop (and they're controlled by the wallet seed in question) you'll get your airdrop Bytes in the DAG , and you can access them after the distribution by restoring any Byteball wallet using that wallet seed.

Linked bitcoin balances and receiving Blackbytes during an airdrop is another matter, though, so it's best to have the wallet you originally used to link with the Transition Bot running to get those. Say "Hi" to the Transition Bot to review your airdrop details.

On further reflection, the only reason I can think of for people to claim DeepOnion is a scam is that they hold other crypto assets and are simply afraid of yet another new cryptocurrency drawing value away from their portfolio. If that's the case, welcome to crypto, people. It's a dog eat dog market here, may the best ideas win. If DeepOnion has any useful innovation, but someone doesn't like the dev stake or the initial distribution, fork the code and do it better. That's how all this works.

I wouldn't say "need" to, but it can't hurt and might be safer if you don't trust such a new wallet. On the other hand, I didn't bother, and had no problems (with a relatively small amount in the wallet to start with). And if you don't send the balance out of Electrum first, you save on BTC miner's fees, which could be considerable if your Electrum wallet has a lot of UTXOs.

On the contrary, considering it launched at the full difficulty of the legacy Bitcoin chain, managed to have essentially volunteer miners find even its first post-fork block (some call it the Exodus Block), has since demonstrated that it's new downward difficulty adjusting mechanism works as designed, and is now clearly functional enough to survive to the next standard difficulty adjustment despite its miners still operating at a cost deficit seems to me to be a quite good showing so far. Morever, in the midst of being bombed by the Nothing-But-Core and dump free coins crowds, it's still holding up as the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap, despite being less than four days old. I'd say that's hardly a joke.

Furthermore, it's clearly proved the Blockstream and Core contentions that a hard fork would be disastrous, or must take forever to plan were always bald-faced lies.

Going forward, it's going to function as a hedge against possible problems with SegWit and it's unnecessary, Rube Goldgerg-ian complexity, as well as insurance that on-chain scaling will continue regardless of whether the 2x part of SegWit2x ever activates.

Lastly, even in its nascent state, it's demonstrating what actual developer decentralization can look like in the Bitcoin space, with four different development teams, each fielding its own compatible client.

You're asking about moving regular, legacy Bitcoin (BTC) from your Blockchain.info wallet to another regular Bitcoin wallet (just not Electrum), right? So you're question doesn't involve Bitcoin Cash (BCC, aka BCH/XBC) at all? If so, you should just do this normally. Get a receiving address from your destination wallet, put that in the "Send to" field of your Blockchain.info wallet, and off you go.

Unfortunately, I haven't used Blockchain.info's wallet for a long time, so I don't know more specifics than that.

Definitely concur.

No, absolutely not. If you transfer bitcoin (BTC, not Bitcoin Cash aka BCC, BCH, XBC) to any exchange today, you'll only be credited with BTC. You won't get the opportunity to get more Bitcoin Cash from that deposit.

On the other hand, if you had BTC in your possession (you held the private keys yourself at the time) during the fork, you should already have access to an equal number of Bticoin Cash BCC.

Headed down pretty hard overnight, now that deposits to exchanges are starting to clear. Anyone have predictions for a bottom?

Whatever price it stabilizes at, I still think Bitcoin Cash will serve as a useful hedge against potential SegWit issues, and as insurance against further scaling logjams in the overall Bitcoin community.

I'm not a Waves user, so I couldn't advise on that issue.

Regarding dumping BCC now, that's a tough call. It's already dropped a lot, will it still drop more? If you think so, then you can dump now, and still buy back later for better value if you want (or just keep the gains from the sale permanently). On the other hand, if it's nearing the bottom, the slingshot has gotten pulled back pretty hard. It could jump up, and that jump could either be a temporary pump itself, or a solid upwards movement. It's really hard to say.

Myself, I'm a believer in Bitcoin Cash, so I'll be HODLing long-term at some point, but if I'm sure it's going to drop in the short term, even I'm tempted to dump just to try to play the market. Unfortunately, my ability to predict the future is murky at best.

After the snapshot, Tony typically waits a few hours to make sure there are no reorgs. Once the distribution of GBYTEs starts, it seems mostly, if not completely automate and occurs pretty quickly. The distribution of Blackbytes, on the other hand, takes and starts with the most funded addresses. Tony usually makes announcements both in this thread and on Slack of which block the snapshot will be and when distribution of GB and GBB completes. The Slack channel is:

http://slack.byteball.org/

And there's a "Get my invite" button available.

You need to have your BTC in one or more Bitcoin addresses linked with your Byteball wallet's transition bot by August 7, 2017 at 18:10 UTC. This means the BTC needs to have at least one confirmation at the linked address(es) before the first block after August 7, 2017 at 18:10 UTC.

You don't need to do anything for the GBYTEs distribution, but if you want to receive Blackbytes, you have to make sure all those GBYTEs are in one or more addresses linked by the transition bot. Just say "hi" to the transition bot, and it should show you your linked addresses.

Not sure what you're saying here? Are you saying that because there's a winner and loser in every market exchange? Those exchanges are voluntary. The party that ends up losing some value must've thought they'd be gaining value or at least status quo, otherwise they wouldn't have completed the exchange.

As far as DeepOnion, if you get some in an airdrop but otherwise have no prior investment, I don't see that there's anything to complain about. On the other hand, if you buy DeepOnion from somewhere, well then you'd better know full well what you are buying and whether it's worth what you are paying for it. Again such a purchase would be voluntary.

I've used Bitcoin ABC with a non-HD wallet.dat, and it works fine. Was able to copy block data from a running and up-to-date instance of Bitcoin Unlimited before the fork to avoid the download and syncing -- worked just fine. I don't think you can do that anymore now that the block chains have diverged. Sent several dozen transactions, all good with no problems, aside from loooooong block times.

I've also used Electron Cash, and sent one transaction from there. Works fine.

I've seen one report from someone who tried to send from an address that had some 600+ UTXOs. He reported his Electron Cash hangs for this attempt. I've tried nothing that challenging so I can't confirm.

My Electron Cash currently has only a single non-zero UTXO in it, but I can't bring up the hidden "Addresses" tab that comes up in Electrum when you press CTRL+A. Not sure if this is because there's only one UTXO total.

So it's a premined PoS coin, and the concern is the devs will hog the staking from the premine, right? Well, if you disapprove so much, grab all you can from the airdrop, and dump them all as soon as they hit an exchange. What's the problem? AFAIK, there's no ICO involved here, no initial investment from users, right?

Hmm, I just figured out that on current Electrum wallets, coin control is hidden by hiding the "Addresses" tab. To view it, hit CTRL+A. The problem is, this functionality seems to be missing from Electron Cash.

EDIT: Perhaps CTRL+A doesn't work on my Electron Cash because it has only a single non-zero UTXO right now. If I learn differently, I'll update.

That looks like the link for the Bitcoin airdrop. Thanks, but I'm asking about the more general Direct Signup Program that will distribute a small amount of Lumens to everyone (via Facebook ID, even those that do not hold Bitcoin).

According to the "Distribution Progress" on this page:

https://dashboard.stellar.org/

it looks like some 9.61% have already been distributed, but there seems to be some >~45% remaining.

I think it's a legitimate hedge against potential SegWit issues, or that the 2x portion of SegWit2x never occurs. I wonder how many people are waiting in the wings for BCC to bottom out to pick some up?

Also, assuming SegWit does activate on the legacy chain, those that prefer closely following the original plan from the white paper now have a block chain to pursue.

I assume you didn't do this consolidation until after the fork? If so, you may truly be stuck until a fix is released. If you consolidated before the fork, you should be able to use the seed from your new Electrum wallet in an instance of Electron Cash. That should work because the consolidation should've resulted in just a single UTXO.

Just out of curiousity, what happens when it hangs? Is it still using CPU time per a task manager? If it is still grinding away on the CPU, maybe let it sit for a long while and see what happens.

Electrum used to have a "coin control" functionality, but it looks like it has lost that capability at some point. That would've allowed you to send each individual UTXO from among the 600+, but I don't know whether that would've of worked in any case.

Edit: You have the right idea in that your final option would be to download and sync a full node wallet, and then import that private key. I assume you meant you'd download the Bitcoin Cash version of Bitcoin Unlimited.