Thanks very much everyone for the fast help and the clarification!

BR, Philipp

Hey folks,

I bought a portion of a BTC some time ago and stored it in an Exodus wallet.
Today, I transferred all my BTCs to a newly bought Ledger wallet in 2 transactions. Sadly the transaction information of both wallets do not match - can anyone explain the subsequently listed records to me?
BTW: I am fully aware of the fact that Ledger creates different receiving addresses for each transaction.

-- 1. Transaction --

Exodus shows:
FROM: 1P5
TO: 3ME

Ledger shows:
FROM: 1P5
TO: 3ME & 1GZ

-- 2. Transaction --

Exodus shows:
FROM: 1P5
TO: 3L8

Ledger shows:
FROM: 1P5 & 1GZ
TO: 3L8


Thanks very much in advance!
BR, the.Phil

Okay!

After having transferred the BTC to the Ledger wallet:
Given the case that (in the future) a random wallet X supports BTC and BCH and a random wallet Y supports BTC and BTG I assume that I can import the private key (from before the SEND/RECEIVE to Ledger transaction) to both wallets and receive BCH on wallet X and BTG on wallet Y.

If a wallet supports BTC, BCH AND BTG I would receive BCH and BTG at the same time right?

Hopefully that is my last question that time.. Thanks for helping - awesome community!
BR, the.Phil

NOW I completely got it - thanks very much for the clarification!




True that - noob
I actually thought of transferring the BTCs to a Ledger Wallet as it is more safe. Shall I wait and do nothing until there are "easy ways to do the recovery of the new coins" or do the following:

1. Extract the private key file from Exodus
2. SEND and RECEIVE the BTCs from Exodus to Ledger
3. Keep the private key file from Exodus somewhere safe so that I can retrieve the BCH coins whenever I want to? (when there are - as you said "easy ways to do the recovery of the new coins")

Thanks!
BR, the.Phil

@Spendulus: Thanks very much!


At some point in time I will have to do it in order to retrieve BCH or did I get something wrong?

But when the keys of my BTC change when SENDING and RECEIVING them from Exodus to the Ledger wallet my BTC should not be at risk when retrieving BCH or am I wrong?

Thanks!
BR

Hi ranochigo,

I think that I start to get it.
So wrapping it up this means the following - could you please confirm this?

-> Buy 20 BTCs

-> Transfer to Exodus Wallet
This Wallet has got a public as well as a private key. Thus all 20 BTCs have got the same private key.

-> Transfer of 5 BTCs to Ledger wallet
The Ledger Wallet has got a different public and a different private key than the Exodus wallet. Thus 5 of my total coins have got a different private key (the new one) than the other 15 on the Exodus wallet.

-> Retrieve 15 BCH (the ones that are still on the Exodus wallet)
I have to access some homepage (what page is not important right now) and enter the private key of the Exodus wallet in order to retrieve my 15 BCH. (Question: Would it be possible to only retrieve let's say 10? Although it does not make sense )

-> Retrieve 5 BCH (the ones that are on the Ledger wallet)
I have to access some homepage again and enter the private key again - but this time I must not enter the private key of the Exodus wallet (because the BTC were transferred to that wallet after the fork) but the private key of the Ledger wallet?


Thanks very much for the help!
BR, the.Phil

Hi,


I am sorry but obviously I used the abbreviation "PKey" in a wrong way and confused something - I was referring to private key.
What about the private key (when talking about "fragments" of the coin)?

Thanks!
BR, the.Phil

Hi ranochigo,

Thanks for your fast reply!

First of all: Exodus offers a GUI with the possibility to send coins to another wallet. Thus I would have sent the coins to the leder wallet via this GUI - although I did not set up the Ledger Wallet yet I assume that it will show me an address where to send the coins to.

I know that I need to have access to the PKey in order to retrieve - the question is whether the PKey of the coins will change when transferring them to another wallet address.
This is more of a conceptual question. As far as I understood each wallet has got a public as well as a private key and each coin has got a private key, right?
If I own 1 BTC there might be 2 PKeys behind this coin because I own 2 fragments of it.

Given the example that my 1 BTC has got the PKeys "abc" and "def" I want to know whether these PKeys will be the same in the ledger wallet after having transferred them from Exodus to Ledger?

Sorry for the non-Bitcoin-related wording
BR, the.Phil

Dear Bitcoin community,

As kind of a Bitcoin novice I want to ask you a question concerning the private key of Bitcoins and hope that you can help me!
Following scenario:
I bought Bitcoins on the 31st of July and sent them to my Exodus Desktop Wallet as I was told that you need to hold the private key of the coins in order to retrieve both BTC and BCH after the hardfork. Since then I never touched my wallet. However, as I bought a Ledger device now, I want to transfer the coins (BTC) to the hardware wallet and thus I wonder what happens to the private keys of the Bitcoins.

Do the private keys of the coins stay the same throughout the transfer?
-   If yes there is no issue with retrieving BCH in the future.
-   If no I will have to keep the private keys from my Exodus wallet so that I can get BCH coins, right?

I hope that my situation/question is clear.

I would be very happy if you helped me out!
Thanks very much in advance!
BR, the.Phil