Should I send pre-fork bitcoin to another wallet to avoid replay attack?

[casparthefriendly]

Hi all, Can Bitcoin from before the Bit[Suspicious link removed]ld October 24th fork be used safely if it is with post-fork bitcoin? Using Electrum wallet and not sure if it can be used, since they are mixed together. Thank you.

I was thinking I could open another Electrum wallet, transfer BTC and leave the old one empty, is that a solution to avoid replay attack?

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[Lorilikes]

I think it's a good idea to get that coin to new wallet yes.  And so long as you control the private key, and don't fall into Any fishing traps you should be ok

[Iranus]

I suppose you're trying to figure out how to split your BTG from your main stash of BTC.  BTG has replay protection and a different address format.  You should be fine to send your BTC to a new Electrum wallet and then you'll have to export your old private keys into a BTG wallet.

That said, there don't seem to be any vaguely trustworthy-looking BTG wallets, since the whole project is generally bullshit.  In fact I can't find a single full node on their website, just three online wallets (one of which has a lot of scam accusations and one of which I've never heard of until now).  The closest thing to a trustworthy wallet provider is Coinomi and that's an online wallet.

[casparthefriendly]

I suppose you're trying to figure out how to split your BTG from your main stash of BTC.  BTG has replay protection and a different address format.  You should be fine to send your BTC to a new Electrum wallet and then you'll have to export your old private keys into a BTG wallet.

That said, there don't seem to be any vaguely trustworthy-looking BTG wallets, since the whole project is generally bull****.  In fact I can't find a single full node on their website, just three online wallets (one of which has a lot of scam accusations and one of which I've never heard of until now).  The closest thing to a trustworthy wallet provider is Coinomi and that's an online wallet.

Yeah that was my thought as well, to separate the BTG from bitcoin.    I agree the BTG website is shady and the non-availability of the node wallet (Its kinda, sort of available on Github but having serious problems) and the only wallets being useable are online ones PLUS the pre-mining and everything else with this just is making me wash my hands of it.

Thank you!

[aisyah88]

not necessary because we can save to our personal wallet and security is more secure enough for me so we do not need to save or make wallet back or store elsewhere ....