Accidentley sent Bitcoin Cash to Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

[Matanlaz]

Hi,

I send Bitcoin Cash to Electrum Bitcoin Wallet.
I can't find it.

Can you please be kind and help ASAP ?

Thank you.

[1715658670]

1715658670

[verifyas]

What is the address?
Did you check the blockchain?

[Matanlaz]

Do you mean the address which was the coin sent to ?
the receiver ?

[mocacinno]

Export the private key corresponding to the funded address from your BTC-electrum
import this private key into a bitcoin cash wallet (depening on the wallet, a rescan might be needed)

Mark the BTC address in electrum as compromised, never use it again. It might even be wise to empty the BTC-electrum wallet and stop using it.

EDIT: i forgot: before exporting the private key for the deposit address from electrum, make sure there are no unspent outputs on the bitcoin network funding this address... If there are, it might be wise to spend these outputs on the bitcoin network before exporting the private key from electrum and importing it in an bitcoincash wallet... Bitcoincash wallets seem to be pretty secure, so the chance of them exposing the private keey are minimal, but it's better to be safe than sorry!

[Matanlaz]

I am a rookie and have no clue how to manage it.
can you please elaborate ?

[Matanlaz]

let me see that I understand :
1. In Electrum wallet : Wallet ->Private keys - > export
2. save the exported file on my desktop.
3. download a different wallet (BTC.com ? BU Bitcoin Cash Client?)?
4. import the whole keys to the new wallet ?
5. In Electrum wallet : Addresses->Right click -> Freeze

Am I right ? Am I missing something ?

Thank you !!!

[Matanlaz]

Export the private key corresponding to the funded address from your BTC-electrum
import this private key into a bitcoin cash wallet (depening on the wallet, a rescan might be needed)

Mark the BTC address in electrum as compromised, never use it again. It might even be wise to empty the BTC-electrum wallet and stop using it.

EDIT: i forgot: before exporting the private key for the deposit address from electrum, make sure there are no unspent outputs on the bitcoin network funding this address... If there are, it might be wise to spend these outputs on the bitcoin network before exporting the private key from electrum and importing it in an bitcoincash wallet... Bitcoincash wallets seem to be pretty secure, so the chance of them exposing the private keey are minimal, but it's better to be safe than sorry!

let me see that I understand :
1. In Electrum wallet : Wallet ->Private keys - > export
2. save the exported file on my desktop.
3. download a different wallet (BTC.com ? BU Bitcoin Cash Client?)?
4. import the whole keys to the new wallet ?
5. In Electrum wallet : Addresses->Right click -> Freeze

Am I right ? Am I missing something ?

Thank you !!!

[mocacinno]

Export the private key corresponding to the funded address from your BTC-electrum
import this private key into a bitcoin cash wallet (depening on the wallet, a rescan might be needed)

Mark the BTC address in electrum as compromised, never use it again. It might even be wise to empty the BTC-electrum wallet and stop using it.

EDIT: i forgot: before exporting the private key for the deposit address from electrum, make sure there are no unspent outputs on the bitcoin network funding this address... If there are, it might be wise to spend these outputs on the bitcoin network before exporting the private key from electrum and importing it in an bitcoincash wallet... Bitcoincash wallets seem to be pretty secure, so the chance of them exposing the private keey are minimal, but it's better to be safe than sorry!

let me see that I understand :
1. In Electrum wallet : Wallet ->Private keys - > export
2. save the exported file on my desktop.
3. download a different wallet (BTC.com ? BU Bitcoin Cash Client?)?
4. import the whole keys to the new wallet ?
5. In Electrum wallet : Addresses->Right click -> Freeze

Am I right ? Am I missing something ?

Thank you !!!

Allmost
1: in electrum wallet -> view -> show coins
2: open coins tab
3: check if deposit address has unspent outputs (coins)
4: if true, ctrl-click on the unspent outputs, select them all -> right click -> spend (fund an address generated by a new, clean, encrypted wallet). If false skip to step 6
5: wait untill tx from step 4 is confirmed
6: In Electrum wallet : Wallet ->Private keys - > export
7: save the exported file on my desktop.
8: locate the private key belonging to the address you wrongfully funded on the Bitcoincash network, copy this private key
9: download a Bitcoincash wallet, for example electroncash (but other wallets work as well)
10: open electroncash, generate a new wallet using a PRIVATE KEY (not a seed)
11: paste the private key from step 8 in the wizard's interface in due time
12: spend the output on the bitcoincash network
13: clean up everything (as soon as the tx from step 12 is confirmed, delete the electroncash wallet, delete the file from step 7,...)
14: In Electrum wallet : Addresses->Right click -> Freeze
14b: even better, create a new wallet, generate a new deposit address, go to the old wallet, click on send, paste the new deposit wallet and click on "max" (empty out the old wallet). Don't use the compromised wallet again (if possible). This last step is an alternative for step 14 in case you're a paranoid person (like me)

[HCP]

Or you could just download ElectronCash from here: https://www.electroncash.org/#download

Install it, then create a copy of your Electrum wallet file, and put it into the ElectronCash directory and open it with Electron Cash. You should see the BCH there.

As far as I'm aware, there haven't been any instances of BCH wallets "stealing" BTC... so it *should* be safe. But if you're paranoid, you can go through all the hassle of moving your BTC first and then trying to recover your BCH.

[bob123]

Thats not a problem as long the recieving address is an address which you are in control of.
Wheter its BTC or BCH does not matter. Just export your private keys from electrum and import them in a BTG Wallet.
But you should be carefully when sending BTG since there is no replay protection implemented yet.
The best way would be to "split" your coins, then start transacting to stranger.

[Matanlaz]

THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!
I Downloaded the electron-cash-2.9.3 and it automatically jumped. I see it now.

THANK YOU!!!!

[LoyceV]

THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!
I Downloaded the electron-cash-2.9.3 and it automatically jumped. I see it now.

THANK YOU!!!!

Good for you
To consider in the future: be more careful! If you make the same mistake when sending funds to an exchange, you'll likely lose them forever. With all the forking, more and more altcoins use the same address format as Bitcoin, while having similar names. Double check what coins you're sending to what address before sending them.