This is a good point, so thanks. I should probably have checked the values of some of the forkcoins before posting, but in fairness I did ask in the beginner section to start with where such ignorance could be excused!

I think it is all fairly clear now and everyone agrees, so thanks all.

Just for clarity my brain wallet is not a 12 word seed, so it is in effect the same as a paper wallet and just a private key which is why I just asked about paper wallets. It's actually worse than a paper wallet, because I made it so stupidly complicated that I couldn't remember it so had to write it down in abbreviated form. Part one of my challenge is to generate the correct private key, but it's only me that can do that, so not part of this post which is part two of the process!

In any case, many thanks for all the help. I now need to learn about replay protection!

LoyceV - one quick further question if you have a second about setting up electrum offline. I know how to launch a live version of lubuntu, for example, but how I do then get electrum on it? Do I download it in advance on a USB/CD and install it from there or do I download it from the internet and then disconnect the internet?

Otherwise, I think the offline signing of the bitcoin transfer, and then adding all the other coins to Coinomi makes sense. I have to use an offline computer anyway, because my paper wallet is actually a brain wallet, so I need to generate the private key to start the whole process.

Thank you everyone for the really detailed and helpful advice. I will go away and read up a bit more on the various steps. The live Electrum seems easy enough, but the offline one and the forkcoins seem a bit more challenging.

Part of my concern is that if I expose my private key for Bitcoin, then I am also exposing it for all the forkcoins. Although, sadly, there isn't that much in the wallet, so perhaps it is a small enough risk.

Overall, it feels like a bit of a shame that this isn't something Ledger has included. It would be nice to provide Ledger Live with my private key and all supported coins automatically swept to the Nano S.

 

Is there an easy way to import or sweep coins from a paper wallet to a Nano S? Having googled it, a number of old posts seem to imply it is necessary to sweep to Coinomi first and then on to the Nano S. It seems like quite a lot of hassle to do that given that I will need to spend a while working out how to do it safely, and the sort of person who owns paper wallets is probably the person who moves to a hardware wallet.

Also, how do I do it for all the various forks that I presumably also own (Gold, Cash, SV, any others)

Any help would be much appreciated.