Help claiming BitcoinCash (BCC) from BTC

[j8dlabomb]

Hi,

I am reasonably tech savvy and have done a lot of research but struggling to figure this one out.

I had ~1.4 BTC in an address: 39hEj7iCd4fkXRKkcLjrnE62jwq9cpNbut

The BTC was loaded into the address BEFORE the fork: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/58d0dcd35111266141f0e1d972108fc315b3927818bd46b62704a2fd411de743 (block 478440)

It was emptied AFTER the fork: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f4c9e79b8c72bc155a27e48542811973d5bf352b46fdccff5fa43ba4fb571fa7 (block 478973)

I have exported the private key from Electrum and tried to import into a number of different BCC wallets, tried Bitcoin ABC and Coinomi and both just say the private key is not recognised.

I still have access to the wallet that the address was on and double checked private key. Still no joy.

BitcoinCash explorer shows the address still is full in BCC: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/39hEj7iCd4fkXRKkcLjrnE62jwq9cpNbut

Without giving the key away its 52 chars.

Please help, i am running out of ideas. Anything to try.

[jackg]

Hi,

I am reasonably tech savvy and have done a lot of research but struggling to figure this one out.

I had ~1.4 BTC in an address: 39hEj7iCd4fkXRKkcLjrnE62jwq9cpNbut

The BTC was loaded into the address BEFORE the fork: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/58d0dcd35111266141f0e1d972108fc315b3927818bd46b62704a2fd411de743 (block 478440)

It was emptied AFTER the fork: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f4c9e79b8c72bc155a27e48542811973d5bf352b46fdccff5fa43ba4fb571fa7 (block 478973)

I have exported the private key from Electrum and tried to import into a number of different BCC wallets, tried Bitcoin ABC and Coinomi and both just say the private key is not recognised.

I still have access to the wallet that the address was on and double checked private key. Still no joy.

BitcoinCash explorer shows the address still is full in BCC: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/39hEj7iCd4fkXRKkcLjrnE62jwq9cpNbut

Without giving the key away its 52 chars.

Please help, i am running out of ideas. Anything to try.

You do have your 1.4BCH in that address.
It's here: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/39hEj7iCd4fkXRKkcLjrnE62jwq9cpNbut

It's possibly an issue with the fact it is a segwit address (one that begins with a 3).
Just to clarify, what letter does your private key start with? It should be either a L, a K or a 5.

Based on what you said, it'll either be a K or an L?

[j8dlabomb]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes private key begins "L3", its 52 chars long. 

[jackg]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes private key begins "L3", its 52 chars long. 

Can you download electron cash and try it on that?

Search for the member Fyookball on here as he is the dev and download it from his signature link.
http://www.electroncash.org/ or use this link.

There's also a tool on BTC.com that might be able to help you (though I don't have the link for that), but they are owned by bitmain so should be fairly safe to use.