Because many people still don't know how to claim their free BCHSV (Bitcoin Cash SV fork) which are created by 15 November hard fork. i will write here Step by Step tutorial for how to claim and and what to do with these free coins.

First of all, i will explain what happen after Hard Fork :
- Original Bitcoin Cash coins are called BCHABC because it belongs to ABC blockchain.
- New created blockchain had generated new coin called BCHSV because it belongs to new created blockchain (SV Chain).

Now many users are selling Old or New coins, for myself i've sold new created coin which is BCHSV.
I will explain here Step by Step how to claim and sell your new BCHSV coins and exchange into original BCH (now called BCHABC) or to Bitcoin or any other coin..

this is what i did for my balance, so i will explain with screen-shots how this happens.

i will use empty wallet as example in my explanation.

First Step : Make sure you have BCH SV at fork date

Because till now there is no explorer to see how much exactly you have of BCHSV coins, we will use blockchair and guess how much you could have at fork date.

Visit this page (Blockchair) :

https://1ink.cc/xVle

Write your wallet address to see how much bitcoin cash available on it before fork date (15 November).


click on search, you could see 2 results. one for Bitcoin and other for Bitcoin Cash.



You should be sure that Last seen receiving is before the date 15 November else your wallet could have no or less BCHSV balance.

in my example :
Last seen receiving: 2018-09-12 07:12
Balance: 0.00000000 BCH

Last seen receiving is 12 /09 it's before the fork date (2018-11-15) so it has SV coins.
but my example wallet appear empty because i'v already withdraw BCH and sold SV coins.

Second Step : Claim Your Bitcoin Cash SV Balance

You will need any bitcoin cash wallet that support the new SV chain, i used Electron wallet to get my SV balance. but you can use any other wallet for bitcoin cash sv.

You can download Electron cash wallet from here :
https://1ink.cc/Z3cMC

Open wallet app, it will ask you to create new bitcoin cash wallet and where to save.
you can keep default path and click 'Next'.



it will ask again whether to add watch only wallet, or standard wallet and more setting.
You can keep all as default, choose 'Standard wallet' and click 'Next'.
Now will ask again if you had old wallet seed to import or create new one, better to create new wallet.
choose 'Create new seed' and clock on 'Next'





Now you have to save your 12 words in safe place (better to print out on paper) and it will ask you to enter them for confirmation.
Enter same given 12 words on next screen for confirmation, and your wallet will be created.



Last step is to set a password for new wallet.
enter good password and confirm it, then click on 'Next'.



You will see your new wallet is empty, with empty history.
You can see History, Send, Receive
in my example there are some transactions are already done before i write this topic.



To import your bitcoin cash SV wallet address and transfer funds into your wallet app, you will need Private Key which is same to original bitcoin cash wallet.

If you don't have private keys for your bitcoin wallet, you should contact your wallet service provider for how to get private key for it.

Now, after getting private key for your BCHSV wallet, which is same to bitcoin cash, you have to sweep/import it into your Electron wallet.

Click on Wallet > Private Keys > Import (or Sweep)



Write private key for your wallet, and click on Import.



If your wallet has many inputs, it may takes some seconds to 1 minute till it complete balance transfer on sweep case.
Elecrton app transfer 100 inputs max per sweep.
if your wallet has more than 100 inputs (as like 400 inputs) you will need to sweep it (same private key) 3 or 4 times to transfer all funds on it.
You will need to wait for payment transaction confirmation for each sweep.

After sweeping wallet, you will get confirmation message with amount that is credited to your wallet app.
Click on Broadcast to confirm it.



New confirmation with transaction id will appear, press ok.



Now you can see new payment is received to your bitcoin cash wallet if you did sweep, or your transactions history if you did import.



wait until it gets one confirmation at least on sweep case, and no confirmation wait required for importing address.
now you're able to send it into HitBTC site if you want to exchange it into Bitcoins or BCHABC the original Bitcoin Cash.
but before we do this, we should make sure we are working on SV chain.

Third Step : Switch to SV Blockchain

Now you should switch your wallet into SV chain, to do this you can simply select a different server from the network tab.



here is list of SV chain servers :
https://1ink.cc/KCFJ1

here is document for All Servers detailed with chain type ABC / SV (if needed) :
https://1ink.cc/zv8NM

in my example, i've used this server for SV chain :
electrumx-sv.1209k.com
you can find it on first link, list of SV chain servers. right click by mouse on it and pick 'Use as server'.



Wait few seconds till red ball becomes green, now your wallet is connected to SV chain.
If that server doesn't work with you, you can use any other server which belong to SV chain.

Last Step : Exchange Bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV) into Bitcoin (BTC) or BCH Original (BCHABC)

I used hitbtc.com to sell my bitcoin cash SV and exchange with bitcoins.

you can create account on hitbtc from here :
https://1ink.cc/U1dpw

Signup, confirm account and click on Account to see your balances and make Bitcoin Cash SV Deposit on HitBTC site.
You can write 'bch' on search box to list all Bitcoin Cash wallets.



Copy deposit address for your Bitcoin Cash SV.



Important : Make sure you are making Bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV) deposit, not classic bitcoin cash or ABC. else your deposit could be lost.

However, HitBTC recently has same deposit addresses for all Bitcoin Cash types, so if did some mistake with bitcoin cash sending type it will still be credited into your account.

Open Electron wallet again and send new bitcoin cash sv payment into hitbtc.



Wait for your deposit to get confirmed on HitBTC.



You can see when it will be confirmed from Pending Deposits panel on Account page (at hitbtc).
then need 6 confirmations at this time. you can see how much confirmations your deposit gets in this menu (Latest transactions).

After your deposit is confirmed and credited into your Bitcoin Cash SV on hitbtc. you are able to sell them into bitcoins now.

To sell your Bitcoin Cash SV with bitcoins click on Transfer beside your BCHSV balance.
You should move all available BCHSV Main Account (balance) into Trade Account.



Your BCHSV balance will be moved into Trade account, they are ready now for trading and sell for Bitcoin.
Click on 'BCHSV Bitcoin Cash SV' title to open trade page for your coins.

on trade page, you will fine Buy BCHSV and Sell BCHSV. you're going to use Sell BCHSV panel.



enter amount of your available BCHSV at Trade Account, pick price which is suitable for you, and you will see how much it makes in Bitcoin when selling.

Click on 'Sell Limit' and your BCHSV now are converted into Bitcoins.

return back into your 'Account' page. and you'll see your Bitcoins under 'Trade Account'.
move them back into Bitcoin 'Main Account' and you're able now to withdraw your free bitcoins into your bitcoin wallet.



Good luck everyone, enjoy your extra coins reward 

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If you find this helpful, please send me any donation for the time i spent to write all this  Grin
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you have mistake about calling Bitcoin a currency. Bitcoin is Money, Bitcoin worth it's price as like as gold. but using it as currency with high fees, slow transactions, while there are better coins as like Litecoin, Bitcoin is no longer a currency these days.

I'm Bitcoin user since 2016. I'm holding and spending it to buy products before. but recently it's almost impossible to use Bitcoin as currency like it was before.

My mom tell me about old days, they was using Gold to buy cheap products. now they use Gold as Money, you can't go and buy from supermarket using gold easily as like our parents did before.

same happening now with bitcoin. it won't be usable as currency for cheap products.

thanks for sharing these records.
i think 2021 could has 16k as lowest price. what everyone else think?

i know we're in pull market, but after a year, could we see $8k to $16k price?

After we reach $42k.
if Bitcoin price start falling, what price do you expect it will reach in the next bear market?

$16k ?
$12k ?
$8k ?
$4k ?

IM, what is lowest price we can see after now?

I sold all my bitcoins in range 20k to $22k so i'm out the market.
i will never ride the wave, will never follow the fomo, i know it's risky to buy it now, i believe bitcoin will drop to 10k sooner or later, so i prefer to wait until price wave come back to me.

i already have good profits from my sale at 20k. i don't want to risk and lose my profits.
yes i would make more profits if i buy now, but i'm happy because i already exit with nice profits.

i'm glad because i sold bitcoin at high price 

i'm old Bitcoin user, since it was ~$250
i used Bitcoin, and recently Litecoin, i can say Litecoin is much much much better than Bitcoin. and most similar to Bitcoin.

I used to buy cheap $20~$50 products using Bitcoin, years before things was very good, fees was low and i wasn't feel it's slow.
But recently and after i used Litecoin, i can say Bitcoin is the shitcoin. it has large fees and actually slow.
We can't stay blind and say Bitcoin is the best. Bitcoin is now is like old phone or old typewriter. We have now many crypto coins we can call it at least better.

I was holder for Bitcoin and Litecoin since long time. now i'm out from all crypto till i see how things goes.
I don't know why i have feeling all crypto will fall, but in total, Litecoin will has better future than Bitcoin.

Currently all crypto now are overpriced, and we should see fall in prices as long as there is no much increase in bitcoin difficulty in the recent days.

I buy bitcoin when there is no good news.
I sold all my bitcoins after i heard many good news and FOMO in price  
Waiting to buy bitcoin again when all these good news disappear.

i'm old holder of Bitcoin since years. i sold many on 2017 when it was about $14~$18k
now i sold all again in range $19~22k

I would buy bitcoin again someday when it fall.

how we can make sure whales are buying not selling?
we only read this on news, but we don't know what they are doing actually under the table.

me too was alt holder beside to Bitcoin, i had Litecoin, but now all are sold.

i sold all my bitcoins. i may buy it again when it fall to $6k 

i think most people are smarter than before. after many FOMO with such crypto projects.

I already sold out all my Bitcoins, and other crypto.

I don't want to risk. i would buy Bitcoin again when it visits $6000 again, maybe next year.

What about you?

Litecoin is above $110 and there is still huge space to reach ATH price ($300).

finally problem solved. i withdraw my balance and say goodbye shitbtc.


my account on ShitBTC is now verified, but i will not use it again.
i'm using now https://1inch.exchange/ i already used it with bigger amount and it works fine. it's decentralized exchange and i advice anyone to avoid all centralized exchange sites especially HitBTC.com, maybe it's not scam, but it's worst exchange site i ever used.

after 4 days they ask for source of funds again.
i attached all screenshots showing withdraw history from the site i used for deposited money into my HitBTC account.

today i sent source of funds, i hope it's enough for what they need.

HitBTC.com is big scam.

they say they allow 1 btc per day, 5 per month for non-verified users.

but i used it only for 0.25 btc (below daily limit) and the locked my account and asked for KYC.
after i provided all documents (passport, driving license, selfy, proof of address,..etc), they asked for source of funds, they asked for documents for person who sent me bitcoin. this was crazy impossible request to cover their scam action.

here are more details about my case :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5290702.0

they finally replied, with same request :

Dear Trader,

This request goes in accordance with our AIA and international AML policies, that can be viewed in the AIA policy section.

Please refer to our Terms of Service. Note that during the registration process you have accepted these rules.

In case the funds been purchased (received as a gift) from an individual, please provide us with a notary certified letter confirming that. Make sure the following points are mentioned:
- Documents proving buyer's identity;
- Documents proving seller's identity;
- Value that was given in exchange in the process of a purchase;
- The exact amount of the funds purchased;
- Details (hashes/addresses) of each transaction related to the purchase;
- The date when the letter was composed.

The letter then has to be certified by a notary.
To avoid unnecessary delays, please make sure all the requirements are met.

Regards,
HitBTC Team

But how can i get documents for other people (sender) who give me bitcoins.
this is impossible, and it's not my job to get documents from every person send me bitcoin.

HitBTC is worst site i ever used. they ask for impossibles, covered with their scam rules, to take my money.