How to claim BCH from Electrum 25 word seed

[bradleydavidgood777]

Hi,

I have a piece of paper I saved from before the BCH fork.

I was keeping my BTC in an Electrum wallet on the PC at the time.

I have a 25 word seed straight from the Electrum wallet.

I also have a "Password to encrypt wallet keys" written down.

After the fork, in March of 2018, I sent my BTC to a new Trezor wallet.

And I saved this old Electrum seed and marked it "Use this seed to claim forks"

I have installed Electrum and recovered the wallet successfully, and it shows zero BTC.

For extra safety, I also sent my BTC from the Trezor wallet to a new Trezor wallet because I wanted to upgrade to the new type of Trezor anyway. 

Now I want to use the old 25 word seed from Electrum to recover BCH.

I'm having trouble because it doesn't seem to like the 25 word seed.

Thanks for the help!

[rat03gopoh]

I'm having trouble because it doesn't seem to like the 25 word seed.

You'll need to extract the private key of the previously funded BTC address (before the fork), then use a BCH wallet that supports private key import. Check out the recommended BCH wallets on the official website https://bitcoincash.org. Electroncash seems to be the closest option.

A useful resource related to forked coins is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2836875.0

[OmegaStarScream]

Electrum should not generate 24 words seeds. AFAIK, it always generated 12 word seedphrases. If you have 25 words, it's probably 24 words from a BIP39 wallet (standard used by pretty much every wallet out there) + a passphrase you added yourself. Possibly Trezor?