Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:20 pm

I did a shorter reply along these lines in another thread, but figured this topic is worthy of its own post and I'll make it more detailed.So if you have Bitcoin that you control the private keys for that was not on an Exchange at the time of the fork on 8/1/17, you will have to take these steps to claim your Free Bitcoin Cash. It's not as technical as it sounds and you really just need to do it step by step and you'll be fine.To export your private key from an Electrum Bitcoin wallet and import into the Bitcoin ABC Bitcoin Cash wallet, see the example in the video I did here: https://youtu.be/XaRWNdRW9kE The simple text version for Electrum is to go to Wallet > Private Keys > Export and it will dump your private keys into a csv file. Just copy the private key that corresponds to the Bitcoin address which has your BTC balance. Then go to Section 2 below.If you have a Bitcoin QT wallet you need to export your Private Key and Import it into the Bitcoin ABC QT wallet. The Bitcoin ABC QT wallet is currently working fine - I can see my Bitcoin Cash balance, however no exchanges are accepting deposits yet so you just have to wait. At lease while we're waiting BCH is going up! I digress.To export your private key from a Bitcoin QT wallet, you need to go into the Console to do it.Make sure your legacy Bitcoin QT wallet is fully synced. Then go to Help > Debug Window > Console tab, then type these commands to show your private key.walletpassphrase 6000dumpprivatekey The walletpassphrase command unlocks your wallet for the number of seconds you provide - here 10 mins in my example, so you can then get your key. The dumpprivatekey command will show your private key that corresponds to your Bitcoin address. Copy it and go to Section 2.In your Bitcoin Armory wallet your private key can be found by double-clicking your wallet in the Armory main window, click “Backup this wallet”, then select “Export Key Lists” and click the button of the same name.Verify your password, and you’ll be presented with your private key in different encodings. You can remove all checkboxes, except “Private Key (Plain Base58)”. Check the “Omit spaces in key data” box. Now select the key string and copy it and then go to Section 2.Then to import your private key into your BCH wallet, you need to first download and sync the wallet from BitcoinABC.org. Note, this took me almost 40 hours.Once sync'ed you can follow the steps I show in my video guide to Import your private keys and I'll also provide text version below: https://youtu.be/XaRWNdRW9kE First, as with anything in this space - turn your encryption on under Settings.Then go to Help > Debug Window > Console tab, then type these commands to Import private key into your Bitcoin ABC wallet.walletpassphrase 6000importprivkey Again, the walletpassphrase command unlocks your wallet for the number of seconds you provide - here 10 mins in my example, so you can then get your key. The importprivkey command will import private key that corresponds to your Bitcoin address.The blockchain will rescan all the transactions for your BTC address and then when it's done you will see your Bitcoin Cash balance in your Bitcoin ABC wallet dashboard. Congratulations, you just got your Free Bitcoin Cash!AFTER CLAIMING YOUR BITCOIN CASH:Before importing your private key into the Bitcoin ABC wallet and claiming your Bitcoin Cash, transact in the following order to be extra safe:1) Move your original BTC from your BTC address to another BTC address and never use that original BTC address on the original BTC chain again2) Import that original BTC private key into your Bitcoin ABC wallet and then leave your Bitcoin Cash at your original address until you are ready to send it to an exchange, etc. or just hold it.Follow me on youtube for more in-depth crypto content. Thanks! https://youtu.be/XaRWNdRW9kE