I got similar situation, my main BTC address on blockchain.info is now watch only address but I need to get private key from address on blockchain.info to try getting BTG from that address?
By main address I mean that was my address for long time and before and after BTG fork come where I was keeping few BTC. I don't know why I changed that before I took private key from there and now I can't get private key for that watching address or I'm doing something wrong?
Now, when I import that address in coinomi wallet I can see all my transfers but I can't manage to get BTG from that in Coinomi wallet. Is there some other way to get BTG from that address now?
Thank you in advance
Sorry please correct me if I'm wrong, but what do you mean by you changed it before you took the private key? Do you mean you deleted it in your imported addresses on blockchain.info before backing up its private key and now you imported it but it now becomes a watch address. If so, Most probably you did not imported a private key but a public key.
Do you still have an accesss from the wallet that it came from? Backups?
To claim your BTG you need your private keys, Since its a watch address you can't get it. After you get your private keys, Follow these steps:
https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000016909-i-didn-t-have-btc-in-coinomi-at-the-time-of-the-snapshot-how-do-i-claim-btg-When I was creating blockchain.info account 2013' or 2014' I write down all I can on paper and .txt file for backup, with pass phrase and private keys. Now with pass phrase I can acces to my wallet and I got all info on coinomi about my earlier transfers and in time when fork happen coins were there. but when I create BTG wallet explained on their web site my balance is 0, dunno why.
I can give you address so you can look also, ballance there is 0 now but you can see history in fork time
As i know by that date, blockchain.info still uses their old version of wallet. They switched to a new version now which uses a 12 word seed. So how many words does your seed have?. Are you really sure you can access it? Meaning to say, you can spend your coins not just viewing your transaction history?
And yes paste your address here.
This was my address I used for long time 1349phVGx8ZHhXwbM8Q7iu3NLwcddFcaX1
this was my last adress with coins at fork time 1AsBHKGWVHVvnmjEaPmd51MPqYZSHztj5d which is now watch only...
I got 12 word pass phrase I think for this 1AsBH... address 1249ph... is my oldest btc address from year 2013 when I started mining etc
will this help?
The snapshot took place on block 491406 so if you have bitcoins at the time of the fork, you will have your BTG's. Now, If you look at Address
1AsBHKGWVHVvnmjEaPmd51MPqYZSHztj5d, The first transaction it received was included in block 496234 which was after the snapshot. Meaning to say there is no BTG in this address as well as bitcoins so you can ignore this address.
Address
1349phVGx8ZHhXwbM8Q7iu3NLwcddFcaX1 has too many transactios so I don't have time to examine all of them obviously. But I checked it on block explorers, It has a balance of 5.34429604 BTG. You can check it here:
https://btgexplorer.com/address/GKu5EppDvzAan1EtH54E9fPGG7QUhQ49eZ. Bitcoin Gold has its own address format which is why if you enter your BTC address in other BTG block explorer's, They will find no result. It's fine in
https://btgexplorer.com as it also displays the address BTC format.
So Address 1349phVGx8ZHhXwbM8Q7iu3NLwcddFcaX1 belongs to blockchain.info right? Is it an imported address or not? or is it an address included in your HD wallet in blockchain.info (Included in your Seed)
I am havng a similar issue, when i login it displays Welcome to your blockchain account and when i click on the Continue button, the page logs out and redirects to blockchain homepage, This is quite strange as my other blockchain accounts are working fine. I have the 17 word passphrase, Its there anyway i can still access the wallet?
Sorry man, Can't help much with the 17 word passphrase. Try reading this thread
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blockchain-info-recovery-1989044. He had a similar problem as yours but this requires you to have your .aes.json files.