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Even more claiming bcc/bch through desktop or hardware wallet is so risky as their are scam wallets which steals your btc when you download the bch/bcc wallet and try to claim the free bch/bcc.

I have 3 separate computers as follows:

Computer 1 - Bitcoin Core wallet with my current balance

Computer 2 - Bitcoin ABC wallet

Computer 3 - Bitcoin Core wallet fresh install and currently syncing block chain

After installing Bitcoin ABC on computer 2, I let it sync the blockchain.  I then shut down Bitcoin ABC and copied my wallet.dat file over from computer 1 and started the wallet back up.  It is now showing the same balance as computer 1, but BCC.

My question is this, once computer 3 is done syncing and I encrypt the wallet there, am I safe to transfer 100% of the balance from computer 1 to computer 3 without impacting the BCC balance on computer 2?

Thanks!

BitHodler... you explained that perfectly thanks!.. maybe ppl will realize that BCH was a
free drop in their pockets, b4 crying scam, sheeesh...

I have 3 separate computers as follows:

Computer 1 - Bitcoin Core wallet with my current balance

Computer 2 - Bitcoin ABC wallet

Computer 3 - Bitcoin Core wallet fresh install and currently syncing block chain

After installing Bitcoin ABC on computer 2, I let it sync the blockchain.  I then shut down Bitcoin ABC and copied my wallet.dat file over from computer 1 and started the wallet back up.  It is now showing the same balance as computer 1, but BCC.

My question is this, once computer 3 is done syncing and I encrypt the wallet there, am I safe to transfer 100% of the balance from computer 1 to computer 3 without impacting the BCC balance on computer 2?

Thanks!

Perhaps I messed up here... but I sent all of my BTC back to Coinbase... made a new B-Cash wallet & imported my BTC wallet.dat file and it says I have 0 balance.

BUT... the final transaction to Coinbase hasn't confirmed at all since it happened on August 5th -- should I assume it will fail eventually and "return" those Bitcoin Cash coins when it does ?

have BTC in Electrum wallet.  Followed their suggestions to split bitcoin cash and it didn't work.  I moved my BTC to a new "safe" wallet.  Downloaded Electron Cash to my android tablet, entered the keys to my old wallet (that then had zero BTC in it).  The electron cash wallet history showed both the positive entries and the withdrawal to my safe wallet, so net Bitcoin cash in the electron cash wallet was zero.  I don't see a way around this except to expose my safe wallet keys to electron cash wallet.  Am I missing something?

You're new to the Internet?

Do your own damn due diligence instead of listening to the ravings of a lunatic...

The wallet is open source, it can be run locally, it doesn't send _anything_ to my server.

So yeah, nice catch, numnuts.

I was keeping my BTC in the Jaxx wallet as they suggested in a post but my BCH / BCC never appeared in the wallet because there were no updates to the app. So I thought I should have kept it there till an updated version comes out, but today I got a confirmation that my claimed BCC will appear in a further version even if I transfer my BTC's now. Just an info for anyone searching an update about Jaxx wallet

Case in point!

Nice catch, @NxtChg

Yeah OK...   like we're all gonna use a well-known embezzler's web wallet...  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10205597
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=203845

YES, YES, YES.  BEWARE People!

1. Decide whether you want to bother splitting your coins at all. Is it actually worthwhile to remove your coins from cold storage (or whatever)? If you take no particular action and continue using Bitcoin as normal, then your BCH is likely (but not guaranteed) to remain associated with the current private keys due to BCH's pseudo-replay-protection; you could therefore maybe claim your BCH later on if you want. If you want to claim your BCH now, continue to the next steps.
 2. Create a totally new logical wallet with a new mnemonic, etc. Just creating new addresses is not sufficient: the new wallet needs to be completely separate from the old one. The new wallet's private keys should be under your personal control just in case your transaction is replayed or something else goes wrong. Make sure you have backups of the new wallet.
 3. Send all of the BTC in your old wallet to your new wallet, and wait until this transaction has 30 confirmations. (If you are really itching to get your BCH, it would not be totally crazy to wait for as few as 3 confirmations, but there is some risk with that.) Note that sending all of your BTC in a single transaction is likely to be harmful to your privacy; if you care about this, you might want to send it in several smaller transactions to several different addresses on the new wallet.
 4. On a separate computer that you wouldn't too much mind being compromised, install a BCash wallet such as one of the ones listed on bitcoincash.org. (Warning: some Bcash wallets are known to overwrite important files belonging to their Bitcoin counterparts.) Or use a Web-based exchange/wallet supporting Bcash. Import the private keys from your old, now-empty Bitcoin wallet into this Bcash wallet. Now you have BCH which you can handle as you wish. Note that BCH transactions may be very slow to confirm for a couple of days.

The guide you posted above is only meant for users who had their funds on BTC.com before the fork, I had funds there, I tried and It works. If you was holding your bitcoins on another wallet then I suggest sending your BTC somewhere else, exporting the private keys, and import them into Coinomi which is an Android wallet.

Thanks for your reply. I know I can also do it the electron-cash way but if my way of doing is fine then the private keys remains safe as it will prevent your private keys from touching the internet. As am doing it for the first time so wanted to confirm if anyone has tried this before.