[ANN] Bitcoin Fork Recycler: Claim and Swap Forgotten Fork Coins Back to BTC

[informatics]

Hello Bitcoiners,

I’m excited to introduce you to Bitcoin Fork Recycler https://bfr.sate.tools — a simple web tool designed to help Bitcoin holders quickly check whether they still have unclaimed balances on past Bitcoin forks, and optionally swap them back into Bitcoin.

Why Bitcoin Fork Recycler?

Back in the days of the "fork chain wars", Bitcoin has gone through multiple contentious forks (BCH, BSV, BTG, XEC, and many others). If you held BTC at the time, chances are you also “inherited” coins on those fork chains — but most people never bothered claiming them. Many of those fork coins are still sitting unmoved today. When we started the company in 2022, we thought it would be a good first technical project to get started with Bitcoin - as a technology.

What job's can the BFR do for you?

• Check fork balances instantly: Paste in a Bitcoin or forkcoin address and see if there are unmoved balances across fork chains.
  
• See their value in Bitcoin: The tool calculates an approximate BTC value for your fork coins.
• Swap fork coins into BTC: If you choose, you can provide the private key and have the fork coins safely swapped into Bitcoin for you. (PLEASE !!!! Move all your Bitcoin first !!!
• Save time & hassle: No need to dig through obscure wallets, replay protection quirks, or risky exchanges just to see if old coins are worth claiming.

Who is this for?

• Long-term hodlers who may have missed forks back in 2017–2018.
• Anyone curious whether their old addresses still hold unclaimed value.
• Bitcoiners who’d rather consolidate everything back into BTC.

Try It Out

👉 Bitcoin Fork Recycler: https://bfr.sate.tools

It’s free to check your addresses. Only if you decide to claim and swap do you need to provide a private key.

Final Thoughts

Fork coins won’t decide Bitcoin’s future — but they can still add up to unexpected value. With Bitcoin Fork Recycler, you can discover if you’ve got anything left unclaimed and easily turn it back into BTC.

Your feedback is very welcome! If you try it, let me know what you think and how the tool could be improved.

Thanks for reading, and happy stacking.

Warm regards,
Satoshi Engineering from Austria 🇦🇹

[shinohai]

>Brand new account
>"Just put your private keys in a web based form, it's totally safe - pinky swear!"

Yeah.

[informatics]

Ouch ... yes you are right ... it looks shady.

• If you don't want to use the tool to automatically swap your coins, you can do it by hand. You can use it check, if some value is at the fork chains.
• You could test it first with a small amount ... well ... I guess, that would a scammer say

We did put a notice up, if the btc address has bitcoin there:
https://i.imgur.com/NDkTc54.png

... and about the registration of today. We are three devs. Never did marketing nor do we like it. That's the idea (post on bitcointalk) we came up with

[shinohai]

Ouch ... yes you are right ... it looks shady.

• If you don't want to use the tool to automatically swap your coins, you can do it by hand. You can use it check, if some value is at the fork chains.
• You could test it first with a small amount ... well ... I guess, that would a scammer say

We did put a notice up, if the btc address has bitcoin there:
https://i.imgur.com/NDkTc54.png

... and about the registration of today. We are three devs. Never did marketing nor do we like it. That's the idea (post on bitcointalk) we came up with

Or perhaps since 3 devs are working on said project, publish an offline tool one can run in their browser *locally*. The idea of checking old wallets for fork coins is sound.

[SFR10]

Swap fork coins into BTC: If you choose, you can provide the private key and have the fork coins safely swapped into Bitcoin for you. (PLEASE !!!! Move all your Bitcoin first !!!

In addition to shinohai's comment, even if you're trying to offer a legit service here, the swap services that you've chosen ^{[step 3]} are well-known for suddenly requiring their users to submit KYC stuff ^{[you wouldn't want to deal with those things]}!
^{- If I were you, I'd stop at step 2 and focus on supporting other forked coins (it'd be nice if you could add tutorials on how users can safely redeem the coins).}

[logfiles]

Doesn't matter if your intentions were good or not, remove the part where someone has to enter their private keys to your website 
Not cool at all

If you want to help people swap their coins, then there are other ways. For example, make swapping service suggestions right after they check amount of unclaimed coins found in their addresses.

[informatics]

Wow ok ... thanks for all the feedback!

... and it seems we didn't do our "homework".
... and I think it comes down to this:

Doesn't matter if your intentions were good or not, remove the part where someone has to enter their private keys to your website 
Not cool at all