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January 15, 2021, 10:22:41 AM
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I started checking for Bitcoin forks that I might have missed, and found quite a few coins in my long-abandoned wallets. One of the wallets is a native SegWit wallet with bc1 addresses, and the site that I used to check for forks - http://www.findmycoins.ninja/ does not support it. Does anyone have experience of claiming forks from bc1 addresses?
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January 15, 2021, 12:04:16 PM
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The short answer is NO.
bc1 address cannot contain any BCH as Bitcoin cash do not support Segwit and because some of the bitcoin community didn't want to accept Segwit they created this hard fork to split from the Core bitcoin. BSV was a fork of BCH, so no way there as well.

If you are unsure for any other addresses, you can check them on https://blockchair.com/

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January 15, 2021, 12:43:42 PM
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The short answer is NO.
bc1 address cannot contain any BCH as Bitcoin cash do not support Segwit and because some of the bitcoin community didn't want to accept Segwit they created this hard fork to split from the Core bitcoin. BSV was a fork of BCH, so no way there as well.

If you are unsure for any other addresses, you can check them on https://blockchair.com/

Yes, I know that bcash does not support SegWit, and the chain split happened before bc1 addresses were a thing, but there are dozens of other Bitcoin forks that were spawned later, perhaps some of them have SegWit and bc1 addresses activated?

I already tried blockchair, it shows no other transactions except for BTC, but it seems to only support BCH and BSV among the forks.
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January 15, 2021, 01:30:51 PM
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In that case I don't know any "valuable" forks, maybe Bitcoin Private or Bitcoin Gold but I don't really follow those shitcoins anyway. If you had a significant amount of bitcoins on the time of the fork they you probably won't to collect the dust.
Anyway, you can trace the forks and check their block explores for the address you have. I don't really see other way to do that.

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