Have I received my BCA bounty payment?

If you can see your Bitcoin address on the Atom Bounty spreadsheet, you have received your BCA bounty payment. This FAQ was published after sending the bounty payments, meaning you should have already received your BCA.

How do I check my BCA balance?

Please use the official Block Explorer to check your balance:

https://bitcoinatom.net

For now, you can only look for a BCA address balance.

To convert your BTC address to BCA address, please use the ‘convertaddress’ method from the Atom Core wallet.

You can also skip this step and check your balance in Coinomi after claiming your bounty coins.

How do I claim my BCA coins?

We recommend using the Coinomi wallet to claim BCA. It is the most convenient method to get your coins in just a few clicks.

Download Coinomi: https://coinomi.com

Once you have Coinomi installed, use one of the approaches to claim BCA, depending on your case:

Approach 1. Import your wallet seed

In case you use an HD wallet (such as Blockchain.info), use either the ‘Backup wallet’ or ‘Export wallet’ option to get your wallet seed.

Save this seed in a secure place (preferably on paper) and launch the Coinomi wallet.

In Coinomi, select the ‘Import wallet’ option on startup and fill in the words from your wallet seed.

PLEASE NOTE! In case you have already created a new wallet in Coinomi, select the ‘Import wallet’ option from wallet Settings.

Set wallet passphrase when requested. Confirm importing your wallet with default settings.

In Coinomi, tap ‘Add Coins’ and select Bitcoin Atom (BCA) from the list of coins. Confirm adding BCA to Coinomi with default settings.

Tap ‘Bitcoin Atom’ on the main screen to enter your BCA wallet. Wait for Coinomi to sync your BCA balance.

Now you should be able to see your BCA balance, send and receive coins using Coinomi.

Approach 2. Import your private key

In case you use a non-HD wallet (such as Bitcoin Core) or simply want to import a single private key, use the ‘Show private key’ (or similar) option to reveal your private key holding BCA.

PLEASE NOTE! In different wallets this option’s name may vary, e.g. it’s a command named ‘dumpprivkey’ in Bitcoin Core, and an option named ‘Export private key’ in a few other wallets. In Electrum, you can get your private key by navigating to the ‘Addresses’ tab, searching the list of addresses for your bounty address, right-clicking on it and selecting the ‘Private key’ option to reveal the corresponding private key.

Save this private key in a secure place (preferably on paper) and launch the Coinomi wallet.

In Coinomi, create a new wallet on startup. Set wallet passphrase when requested.

In Coinomi, tap ‘Add Coins’ and select Bitcoin Atom (BCA) from the list of coins. Confirm adding BCA to Coinomi with default settings.

Tap ‘Bitcoin Atom’ on the main screen to enter your BCA wallet. Wait for Coinomi to sync your BCA balance. It should display 0 BCA.

In BCA wallet, select the ‘Sweep keys’ option and insert your private key. Confirm sweeping keys with default settings.

Wait for Coinomi to resync your BCA wallet. You should be able to see a new unconfirmed transaction there, sending your bounty coins to your BCA wallet. Wait for this transaction to get confirmed (usually a few minutes).

Now you should be able to see your BCA balance, send and receive coins using Coinomi.

Approach 3. Adding BCA to Coinomi

In case your bounty Bitcoin address is already on Coinomi, all you have to do is to add BCA into your Coinomi wallet.

In Coinomi, tap ‘Add Coins’ and select Bitcoin Atom (BCA) from the list of coins. Confirm adding BCA to Coinomi with default settings.

Tap ‘Bitcoin Atom’ on the main screen to enter your BCA wallet. Wait for Coinomi to sync your BCA balance.

Now you should be able to see your BCA balance, send and receive coins using Coinomi.

How do I claim coins with a BCA full node?

It is possible to claim BCA using a full node wallet (Atom Core), although it is less convenient and takes a bit more time.

As a prerequisite, you should have the Atom Core wallet installed and fully synced.

First, you need to locate a private key to your bounty Bitcoin address. Depending on the wallet you use, select the ‘Show private key’ (or similar) option to reveal your private key.

PLEASE NOTE! In different wallets this option’s name may vary, e.g. it’s a command named ‘dumpprivkey’ in Bitcoin Core, and an option named ‘Export private key’ in a few other wallets. In Electrum, you can get your private key by navigating to the ‘Addresses’ tab, searching the list of addresses for your bounty address, right-clicking on it and selecting the ‘Private key’ option to reveal the corresponding private key.

Save this private key in a secure place (preferably on paper) and launch the Atom Core wallet.

Execute a command named ‘importprivkey’ with your private key and a rescan parameter. Wait for the Atom Core to rescan the blockchain.

Alternatively, you can import your private key without rescanning the blockchain immediately. You can always do it later by launching the Atom Core with the ‘-rescanblockchain’ flag.

Once rescan is completed, you should be able to see your BCA balance, send and receive coins using the Atom Core.

I still cannot claim my bounty coins. Please help!

Please ask the community for help in our official Telegram group:

https://t.me/bitcoinatom

Alternatively, ask your questions on the official Bitcoin Atom Bounty thread on Bitcointalk.

ONE WAY THAT YOU CAN HELP THE BITCOIN ATOM PROJECT IS TO CONTACT EXCHANGES AND ASK THEM TO LIST BCA.

ABOUT BITCOIN ATOM

Bitcoin Atom (BCA) is a SegWit enabled Bitcoin fork with on-chain atomic swaps on board and hybrid consensus. Bitcoin Atom enables truly decentralized digital asset exchange by utilizing hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs) and its own HTLC API, giving independence from intermediaries and any centralized entities.

Bitcoin Atom’s development team is working on a special embedded toolkit for both on-chain and off-chain atomic swaps, allowing for exchanging any cryptocurrencies in a hassle-free way across different blockchains. Lightning Network off-chain swaps scheduled to be launched in 2018.

The Bitcoin Atom (BCA) fork took place at block #505888 on January 24, 2018.

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