hello
I know this question was asked very often, but without a real solution for me.
The point is this i still have a multibit CLASSIC wallet and want to get the BCH.
I downloaded the wallet from bitcoin.com and wanted to import my key, but it says wrong password. i made a key without pw but it didn't let me import. I think the problem is ether that the file is multibit.key? or that is has not this mnemonic phrase password?
Could someone please help me on that, i am not technically.
And no I dont want to try services like electrocash etc.
Thank you!
You don't have a seed phrase on multibit classic, it's multibitHD that has the seed - so you haven't lost anything there.
When you open the private key, what does it start with? Can you work out what format it's in, if it's plain text in a WIF format which is probably what it'd be exported as then it should begin with a L, K or a 5. If the key begins with a U, that means it's encrypted using bip38 encryption (as far as I know that's the main letter that encryption links to but it may link to others as well).
Can you view the key in the multibit wallet and get it from there?
If that's the wallet that you want to use and you trust the most then stick with it, if there are compatability issues and another client is needed later then you can come back to using that afterwards (and if you distrust/dislike electroncash and you are orced into using it because nothing else works with your current wallet, you can always sign transaction offline and broadcast it from another computer so no one has access to anything - but you).