How to get up to date from 1.7.3 and claim BCH and BSV ?

[eek777]

I have my BTC in one address in an old Electrum-1.7.3-portable.exe wallet. -> does not connect anymore
I have my seed and an export of electrum-private-keys.csv even electrum.dat is there.

Want to get up to date now. And also claim BCH and BSV. What steps in order do I have to take?

I assume:
1. Restore my BTC wallet with the current Electrum v4.0.9 from seed.

Question: Do I have to keep something in mind concerning the change in Version 2.0 ? Will the restored wallet be somehow different with the new Electrum version?
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

New seed derivation method (not compatible with BIP39). The seed
   phrase includes a version number, that refers to the wallet
   structure. The version number also serves as a checksum, and it
   will prevent the import of seeds from incompatible wallets. Old
   Electrum seeds are still supported.



2. Claim BCH:
2a. BTC need to be moved so they are save - right? To another newly created wallet or is a new address in the restored wallet ok?

2b. Install BCH client from electroncash.org
2c. Import private key from the old 1.7.3 Electrum wallet that is in the electrum-private-keys.csv for that one address?
    It's also now in the restored BTC Electrum 4.0.9 wallet I guess. They stay the same even after restoring from seed - right?

3. Claim BSV:
I read about BCH and BSV need to be split because there is no replay protection between them.
How to continue?

3a. Install BSV client from electrumsv.io
3b. Import private key from old 1.7.3 Electrum wallet into ElectrumSV


Are these steps correct? What do I have to pay attention for? How would you get up to date?
Thanks for helping!

[AB de Royse777]

You have seed so nothing to be worried

1. Restore my BTC wallet with the current Electrum v4.0.9 from seed.

Electrum official site: https://electrum.org/#download
Make sure you verify the signature of the download: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-verify-your-electrum-download/

Restore the wallet using the seed and move the BTC (if any) to a new wallet.

You are good in the rest of the steps.

Good luck.

[jackg]

I'd open your old electrum and get the private key of the address that's funded if it's just one. If you don't know which it is you may be able to find your master public key ("xpub") and then put it into blockchain.com/btc/xpub (I hope that function is still available as I'm unable to test it atm) put your xpub at the end and then go back to electrum when you find which address has a balance and take that private key.

Then "sweep" the funds into a new electrum 4.0.9 wallet (you could update to segwit at this point too) - write down your new seed words.

Then just get a bsv and bch client and put your old private key into that.

[khaled0111]

you may be able to find your master public key ("xpub") and then put it into blockchain.com/btc/xpub (I hope that function is still available as I'm unable to test it atm)

I just tried it and it looks like it's not avalable any more as it keeps redirecting me to the main block explorer page.
Instead, he can import his wallet into a new version of Electrum and use the Filter feature from the Addresses tab to list only funded addresses. This must be done before moving his coin to a new wallet or he will get a blanck list.

[eek777]

I know the address and have the private key. So there's no problem.

I generally like the idea of activating segwit. Does anything considerably speak against it?

What about the claiming of BCH and BSV. Anything I have to pay special attention to? How do I split those coins?

[HCP]

I generally like the idea of activating segwit. Does anything considerably speak against it?

You don't "activate" Segwit... you either use Segwit addresses, or you don't.

What about the claiming of BCH and BSV. Anything I have to pay special attention to? How do I split those coins?

To prevent "replay" issues with BCH and BSV, you need to get some small "split" BCH amount from somewhere (easiest way is to purchase some from an exchange)... and you send that BCH to your BCH address... then send the entire amount to a completely new wallet.

This way, the transaction cannot possibly be "replayed" on the BSV network, as the small amount from the exchange purchase will not exist on the BSV network (the exchanges will be using already split coins).

Once you have confirmed that the "old coins+new coins" transaction on BCH is not showing on your BSV wallet (your coins will be successfully "split"), you'll be able to then send the BSV to a completely new BSV wallet.

[Abdussamad]

to use segwit you will have to create a new electrum wallet and choose segwit as the script type when asked. it'll create bech32 addresses for you (bc1 addresses). then you simply send from the old to the new wallet. you will have to move your coins to a new btc wallet anyway before you go claiming fork coins so be sure to do it like this.

to begin the process of creating a new wallet go to file > new/restore. you can switch wallet files via file > open or recently open.


this forum is only for bitcoin electrum so we can't really help you with the fork coins' versions of electrum. they are maintained by other people.

[LoyceV]

I wrote a very short summary of getting Forkcoins out of multisig, part of this can be used without multisig too.
For splitting Forkcoins and forcing replay protection, I can get you some Forkcoin dust. However, before doing this, I'd love to get $1 worth of pre-fork coins that exist on all 3 chains (BCH/BSV/BCH-A). This can only be created from unsplit coins, which you have. I'm not sure if Electrum adds a locktime, and if it does it might influence replaying transactions. This is one of the things I'd like to test when I have a small amount of unsplit coins.

Note: before doing anything related to Forkcoins: move your Bitcoins to a new wallet so you don't risk them.