Claiming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from Electrum wallet using one machine only

[alifrenstein]

i'm a user of coinomi(android),but i can find where to input priv key,can you show me the way please?

Be careful man, there is no 100% safe method as of this moment. Better to wait.

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[Charloz24]

Don't be a rush to try to sell your BCH because of value:

1) This value is not real, nobody can't send their BCH in exchange yet

2) Transaction will take a huge amount of time (maybe 2-3 days) because block are still mined slowly, so very long confirmation time

3) If you rush it, you risk to loose your BTC so be carefull.

[alifrenstein]

Don't be a rush to try to sell your BCH because of value:

1) This value is not real, nobody can't send their BCH in exchange yet

2) Transaction will take a huge amount of time (maybe 2-3 days) because block are still mined slowly, so very long confirmation time

3) If you rush it, you risk to loose your BTC so be carefull.

First of all must wait patiently until there will be a 100% safe way to claim my BCH from Electrum wallet.

Only then, after I have the BCH, can start thinking of selling it.

[taxmanmt5]

I don't know what your exact setup is, but I think the best solution for you would be to set up some sort of virtual machine. Using some pre-existing software, that could be a little bit intensive for some slower computers but for the purposes of you need that might work. If you're running Windows 10, there is an option to setup a Linux shell in the background.

[posternat]

For what you're talking about don't even touch that, it's all command line and would be pretty difficult. If you're ready Windows of any kind, just grab something like virtualbox, and run an earlier version of Windows that you have the product key for still. You should be care in not losing BTC which trying to claim BCC.

[JohnBitCo]

For what you're talking about don't even touch that, it's all command line and would be pretty difficult. If you're ready Windows of any kind, just grab something like virtualbox, and run an earlier version of Windows that you have the product key for still. You should be care in not losing BTC which trying to claim BCC.

Even if your RAM is way too low and it's like pulling taffy through molasses, the process you're talking about going through would only have to be done once and you will get your BCC.

[jman0war]

So has anybody actually done this yet?

Searching google reveals some thread of people having problems, like Electrum Cash not finding any servers.

[jerry0]

Anyone here has done this?  I was going to install a virtual machine... not sure how to do that as im not computer tech but someone here mentions that could mess up the nodes in electrum?  I dont know what that means but anyone here did it with one machine only and if so... how?

[Ayms]

Check this tool https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions

This works for standard and multisig wallets, like Electrum, for BTG now but in fact for any coin based on Bitcoin code, BCH, BTC, zcach, etc (and yes there are dev fees as clearly stated in the description with even a link to people that dislikes it a bit)

Probably not totally trivial to use but still easier than whatever exists, and you don't need to sync a node and your wallet, that's the whole purpose of this tool

This is not something coming from nowhere, you can read those threads https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/issues/238 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2550529.msg26150335#msg26150335 (and the description of the tool on Github)

Note: see https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-transactions/issues/4 , needs to be tested for BCH