Recover Bitcoin Cash

[juanlonginus]

Helio friends,

In first place, nice to stay here with you.

I am beginner in the Crypto World, and I have a problem with Electrum Wallet. I sent Bitcoin Cash from Coinbase to Electrum and they did not arrive to the wallet. I think that the problem is wallet because only works with Bitcoin not Bitcoin Cash.

How do I recover the coins? Or what do I?

Thanks.
Regards.

[mk4]

Download a bitcoin cash wallet[1] then import your electrum private keys on to the bitcoin cash wallet. You should then be able to access your BCH.

[1] https://www.bitcoincash.org/#wallets

[boulderchain]

Just to clear thing up. Yes, you can't send BCH to a standard electrum wallet. You will need a dedicated wallet for Bitcoin Cash (maybe there is a electrum version available).

As the previous poster already mentioned. Just download a different wallet and import your private key there. Be careful when doing this, because the private key is all you (or an attacker) needs to access your funds.

[jseverson]

To add, there is a modified Electrum client for Bitcoin Cash, so you don't have to adjust to the interface anymore:

https://electroncash.org/

You're lucky you own the address you sent to, because I doubt you'll be able to recover it otherwise. Be careful next time! I'm also assuming you sent it to a non-Segwit address, because you may not be able to recover it otherwise but I could be wrong.

[juanlonginus]

Thank so much!!