I have bitcoin and use electrum. I know you can claim bitcoin cash and gold but you have to download programs to do this and i have not.
I like to know for those users who kept their btc in an exchange like bittrex, were you able to get the bitcoin cash or gold in your account credited without you doing anything?
I ask this because i read there are going to be more bitcoin forks... if that is the case, wouldn't it make sense to just send btc to bittrex so that way, you get credited with whatever is the fork as oppose to you having to download a program on your computer etc? Did bittrex credit users with bitcoin equivalent of bitcoin cash, gold and diamond in their account? Or did they have to do something else? Because i was thinking about just moving btc from electrum to bittrex so once i get whatever fork is there... then i send my btc back to electrum as i read keeping btc in your own wallet is safer etc.
This is called laziness, how hard is it for you to import your private key to another wallet that supports the forked coins? Yes exchanges will automatically credit the coins from hard forks to your exchange address and that's a big help but why would you store your Bitcoin in exchanges that don't give you full control of your private key and primary target of hackers, It's like a gamble and you cannot consider that a secure way to store your Bitcoin even if that exchange is trustworthy. Cryptocurrency exchanges should only use for trading purposes besides there is nothing else.
