Splitting coins in a Bitcoin Core wallet after potential fork August 1st

[brockleeroy]

I transferred all my BTC out of my Bitcoin Core wallet after the fork occurred so they are in a new Bitcoin Core wallet safe. I then copied my Bitcoin Core wallet.dat file to the new Bitcoin ABC wallet on another computer. It shows my BCC balance as 0 in Bitcoin ABC wallet. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Bump... did you find out what the issue was? Maybe you needed to rescan?
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I figured it out. I backup up my wallet.dat, uninstalled bitcoin abc, deleted the users/username/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin appdata directory. Then copied the backed up wallet.dat back in that directory. Reinstalled Bitcoin abc. It synced and now it works. Yay!

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[mountcrypt]

Hi guys,

Sorry for the n00b question, but I'd really appreciate some guidance on the below:

I sent the majority of my BTC to my Mycelium wallet pre-August 1.

Since then I've sent it to various exchanges (Bittrex and Coinbase) with the intention to trade. But then I discovered I can actually claim Bitcoin Cash against my Bitcoin. WOOP!

So I've sent my BTC back from the exchanges to Mycelium. Can I still claim my Bitcoin Cash against those BTC, even though they've been sent to exchanges and back since August 1st?

I tried to do some research prior to asking here. There are detailed outlines of how to retrieve your BCC from a Mycelium wallet (listed below for those interested) but I can't find an answer for this particular situation.

I was hoping someone experienced from the community could advise me before I begin the retrieval process, given that there's a level risk involved with most procedures.

Thanks in advance!

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Guides to retrieving BCC from your BTC in a Mycelium wallet (which I'm assuming only work for cases where the BTC has been in the wallet since pre-August 1 and hasn't moved around)

https://steemit.com/btc/@libert/step-by-step-guide-on-claiming-bitcoincash-from-mycellium-wallet-201783t112141477z
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2058473.0

[HCP]

If your BTC was in a wallet where you have access to the private keys when Block #478558 was mined on the BTC network... then you should be able to "claim" an equal amount of BCC regardless of what you did with your BTC after this time. You could have sold all your BTC for DOGE coin, or sent it all to a BTC burner address or spent it all on blackjack and hookers.

The BTC and BCC chains split at Block #478559... so the two chains share a common history up until Block #478558.

You don't need your coins back in your Mycelium wallet to start... in fact, you're technically safer if they are NOT in your Mycelium wallet (and you never use that wallet again and generate a completely new wallet with new keys)... that way, only your BCC is in danger if the BCC wallet you use to claim your BCC is rouge and steals your keys

[robertbruce]

There is no need to make a second Bitcoin Core wallet, or to even do anything to split your coins. Since they now have two way replay protection, your coins will be split the moment the chain forks.

What you need to do to spend your ABC coins is to just make a copy of your Core wallet.dat file. Then install the Bitcoin ABC client and put your copied wallet.dat file in the place where you want the ABC datadir to be (do this before starting ABC). Then start ABC and let it sync. When you want to spend your ABC coins, just use the ABC wallet. When you want to spend your Core coins, use the Bitcoin Core wallet.

thank-you for your posts achow101 and dotbitme...

Would this twist on this method save a step. My goal is to move my bch to a paper wallet...

copy over the datadir and wallet.dat to a new directory
start bitcoin core, point it to new directory
load with new paperwallet address in the receiving list
sync it
send prefork btc to new address, wait for confirms
close Bitcoin core
install bitcoin abc, let it overwrite the files, sync it,
load with key from prefork btc, bch shows up,
send to new paper-wallet address that was loaded in bitcoin core

doing it this way i wouldnt have to go back to bitcore coin and would save a transaction... i havn't used bitcoin core yet, but from what i understand if i let it create a receiving address of it's own im going to have to extract the key and or do the passphrase thingy to get it simply from one addy to another... within the same wallet...