can i claim btc forks and airdrops with segwit adress starting in bc1?

mokusan

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Quote from: Alexander_Z on February 10, 2018, 02:46:11 PM

Quote from: mokusan on February 10, 2018, 02:33:26 PM

Hi,

I had bitcoins in a wallet the day of the btg fork, but I never worried about claiming them. A couple of weeks ago I moved all my bitcoins to segwit wallets (of those that start with bc1) and decided to claim all possible forks. Today, I used this page https://btcdiv.com/ to see all the airdrops and forks that I could claim with my wallets and I was surprised to realize that I can´t claim anything.

my question is: can´t I claim these forks because before doing so, I moved my bitcoins to segwit directions? i don´t know what i'm doing wrong, i tried in coinomi to restore all the wallets that I ever had even scanning the qr code but nothing.

Thanks for your help!

If you moved your bitcoins to new wallets recently, all the forks remained in your old wallet. Moving BTC does not move BTG or other forks (at least any of them that have replay protection), so it does not matter if the new wallets are in Segwit format or not. What matters is the access to the private keys of the old wallet. If you have access, export the private keys and import them to Coinomi (for example, by scanning). I claimed BTG in a similar way, exported private keys from Electrum wallet after moving BTC to a new wallet, then imported the keys to Coinomi.

Thanks for the help!!

i had to create a new wallet in coinomi instead of restoring an existing one, and then scanned the exported private keys from my electrum wallet.

odolvlobo

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Your question made me think of an interesting exploit. In any fork of bitcoin that does not support segwit, anyone can spend the bitcoins at any segwit address.

Alexander_Z

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Quote from: mokusan on February 10, 2018, 02:33:26 PM

Hi,

I had bitcoins in a wallet the day of the btg fork, but I never worried about claiming them. A couple of weeks ago I moved all my bitcoins to segwit wallets (of those that start with bc1) and decided to claim all possible forks. Today, I used this page https://btcdiv.com/ to see all the airdrops and forks that I could claim with my wallets and I was surprised to realize that I can´t claim anything.

my question is: can´t I claim these forks because before doing so, I moved my bitcoins to segwit directions? i don´t know what i'm doing wrong, i tried in coinomi to restore all the wallets that I ever had even scanning the qr code but nothing.

Thanks for your help!

If you moved your bitcoins to new wallets recently, all the forks remained in your old wallet. Moving BTC does not move BTG or other forks (at least any of them that have replay protection), so it does not matter if the new wallets are in Segwit format or not. What matters is the access to the private keys of the old wallet. If you have access, export the private keys and import them to Coinomi (for example, by scanning). I claimed BTG in a similar way, exported private keys from Electrum wallet after moving BTC to a new wallet, then imported the keys to Coinomi.

mokusan

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Hi,

I had bitcoins in a wallet the day of the btg fork, but I never worried about claiming them. A couple of weeks ago I moved all my bitcoins to segwit wallets (of those that start with bc1) and decided to claim all possible forks. Today, I used this page https://btcdiv.com/ to see all the airdrops and forks that I could claim with my wallets and I was surprised to realize that I can´t claim anything.

my question is: can´t I claim these forks because before doing so, I moved my bitcoins to segwit directions? i don´t know what i'm doing wrong, i tried in coinomi to restore all the wallets that I ever had even scanning the qr code but nothing.

Thanks for your help!

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