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legendary
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August 06, 2017, 12:23:14 AM
#89
There was a twitter made by electrum about this software:
https://twitter.com/ElectrumWallet/status/891935330235973633
WARNING: "Electron Cash" will copy all your Electrum wallets to its own directory, and their binaries are anonymous

So I am not surprised to read about a clear scam about Electron Cash. Also the name similar to Electrum wallets sounds like a scam Sad
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August 06, 2017, 12:18:21 AM
#88
Hello everyone. I have a problem claiming my Bitcoin cash from the private keys.

I had a BTC balance on Electrum wallet before and after the swap. Moved my BTC after the swap to a diff address for security reasons. Now cannot use my private keys, every wallet (Electron cash, coinomi, Bitcoin ABC ) says that there is no funds on those keys, but the block explorer confirms that my Bitcoin Cash is there: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/36XmauGXBMEMjMNbRXxmCWy1X8g9SLEwFC. What am I doing wrong? Anyone has an idea?
Thanks.

Wait for sync and make sure the wallet is connecting?
legendary
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August 06, 2017, 12:07:44 AM
#87
Hello everyone. I have a problem claiming my Bitcoin cash from the private keys.

I had a BTC balance on Electrum wallet before and after the swap. Moved my BTC after the swap to a diff address for security reasons. Now cannot use my private keys, every wallet (Electron cash, coinomi, Bitcoin ABC ) says that there is no funds on those keys, but the block explorer confirms that my Bitcoin Cash is there: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/36XmauGXBMEMjMNbRXxmCWy1X8g9SLEwFC. What am I doing wrong? Anyone has an idea?
Thanks.
legendary
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August 05, 2017, 10:31:27 AM
#86
Thanks!

Is it a forever fail?

The bcc have to be somewhere?
Imported private keys and bcc says 0???

I did this:

1. Had electrum wallet where i had bitcoin from 31st to 2nd
(electrum wallet with 2 factor authentification from trusted coin)

(exact times: put bitcoins in adress at 31.7    17:00h, put them out again at 2.8 11:00h) -> are the times right?
(sent the bitcoin to other adress)

2. In this wallet went to 'used addresses' in electrum and copy-pasted private keys - there were 2 of them,
always right click show private keys and had to give password every time

3. Uninstalled electrum cash (and moved the electrum folder in the roaming shared folder on c:)

4.  Installed electrum cash

5. chose 'manual server', took casharia

6. made new standard wallet

7. chose 'use public or private keys'

8. put in the 2 private keys in, each one in his own line (pressed 'enter' after first)

9. Expect bcc to show up but are not there
Bitdozer showed 0 bcc on this wallet
(also showed 0bcc on the adress of the bitcoin wallet in 1.)

I have the same issue.
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August 05, 2017, 10:14:08 AM
#85
Thanks!

Is it a forever fail?

The bcc have to be somewhere?
Imported private keys and bcc says 0???

I did this:

1. Had electrum wallet where i had bitcoin from 31st to 2nd
(electrum wallet with 2 factor authentification from trusted coin)

(exact times: put bitcoins in adress at 31.7    17:00h, put them out again at 2.8 11:00h) -> are the times right?
(sent the bitcoin to other adress)

2. In this wallet went to 'used addresses' in electrum and copy-pasted private keys - there were 2 of them,
always right click show private keys and had to give password every time

3. Uninstalled electrum cash (and moved the electrum folder in the roaming shared folder on c:)

4.  Installed electrum cash

5. chose 'manual server', took electroncash.cascharia.com

6. made new standard wallet

7. chose 'use public or private keys'

8. put in the 2 private keys in, each one in his own line (pressed 'enter' after first)

9. Expect bcc to show up but are not there
Bitdozer showed 0 bcc on this wallet
(also showed 0bcc on the adress of the bitcoin wallet in 1.)
legendary
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August 05, 2017, 10:11:40 AM
#84
I was able to deposit BCC and transfer it to do a BCCashout with no issues.
Did you import the private keys or the seed?
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August 05, 2017, 10:05:22 AM
#83
I was able to deposit BCC and transfer it to do a BCCashout with no issues.
legendary
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August 05, 2017, 09:45:09 AM
#82
Thanks!

Is it a forever fail?

The bcc have to be somewhere?
Imported private keys and bcc says 0???

full member
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August 05, 2017, 09:14:01 AM
#81
Thanks!

Is it a forever fail?

The bcc have to be somewhere?

(Sad at myself trying so hard and still failing so hard. Irony is that if i had left everything on bitstamp - they now say they credit all the bitcoin cash after they said they did not.)
legendary
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August 05, 2017, 08:57:51 AM
#80
bitcoin wallets were 2 factor authentification, that is irrelevant is it)

i posted in this this thread 2 days ago that my buddy's experience with 2FA and electron cash was a fail.
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August 05, 2017, 08:54:50 AM
#79
Thanks!

Blockdozer says

0 bcc at my original bitcoin wallet
0 bcc at my bcc wallet where i 'imported' the private keys
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August 05, 2017, 08:38:11 AM
#78
What does a BCH chain explorer say about you bch balance?
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August 05, 2017, 07:58:12 AM
#77
Argh, it shows 0 bcc

What I did:
1. Had electrum wallet where i had bitcoin from 31st to 2nd

(exact times: put bitcoins in adress at 31.7    17:00h, put them out again at 2.8 11:00h)
(sent the bitcoin to other adress)

2. went to 'used addresses' in electrum and copy pasted private keys
There were 2

3. Uninstalled electrum cash and deleted the electrum folder in the roaming shared folder on c:

4.  Installed electrum cash

5. chose 'manual server', took casharia

6. made new standard wallet

7. chose 'use public or private keys'

8. put in the 2 private keys in, each one in his own line (pressed 'enter' after first)

9. Expect bcc to show up but are not there


(bitcoin wallets were 2 factor authentification, that is irrelevant is it)

[also electrum cash does not appear in my list of programs that i can uninstall]
newbie
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August 04, 2017, 10:47:42 PM
#76
Working just fine for me, except the 20 connections nonsense heeh
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August 04, 2017, 04:49:31 PM
#75
Hi there. So i wanted to give it a try and used a small wallet to check if electron cash is safe to use. Well it is not. I imported a wallet using all the precautions needed to save my bitcoins, and imported a small amount of bcc into the wallet. A couple of minutes later the bcc were sent away like magic. Farewell...

So be carefull!!!

Here's a screenshot

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Thanks w0t4n for this brief advice.

The reason for that is a simple error by the user not choosing the right node, nothing is gone. Mentioned here a million times.
Sadly they never report back when they see the mistake.
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August 04, 2017, 03:39:21 PM
#74
Hi there. So i wanted to give it a try and used a small wallet to check if electron cash is safe to use. Well it is not. I imported a wallet using all the precautions needed to save my bitcoins, and imported a small amount of bcc into the wallet. A couple of minutes later the bcc were sent away like magic. Farewell...

So be carefull!!!

Here's a screenshot

upload pic

Thanks w0t4n for this brief advice.
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August 04, 2017, 02:47:03 PM
#73
so how many people have had a successful bcash transaction using electron cash so far?

I used electron cash, and it gave me no trouble. I just imported my private key and as soon as it connected, I send the coins to be sold.

P.S. I send my BTC to another address before adding the private key with 6+ confirmations in the BTC blockchain, just to be sure.
newbie
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August 04, 2017, 02:36:13 PM
#72
Anyone know how to resolve this issue?

The transaction was rejected by network rules. (16: mandatory-script-verify-flag-failed (Signature must use SIGHASH FORKID ))
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August 03, 2017, 11:50:41 PM
#71
So yeah, Electron Cash works just fine. Mostly.

This is a problem I have with Electrum as well, but back when I was mining, I have one address that had 600+ transactions. I managed to consolidate them down in Electrum and send them to my new Electrum wallet.

But when I try to send off my BCC using Electron Cash, the whole wallet hangs up when I import that address's private key... It's a nightmare. So I essentially have a whole BTC in that address that is stuck for the time being.

I've tried about 10 times to get it working with no results. I'm even thinking of downloading the entire blockchain with bitcoin unlimited to send it that way, but it's gonna' take a while. o_o

I assume you didn't do this consolidation until after the fork? If so, you may truly be stuck until a fix is released. If you consolidated before the fork, you should be able to use the seed from your new Electrum wallet in an instance of Electron Cash. That should work because the consolidation should've resulted in just a single UTXO.

Just out of curiousity, what happens when it hangs? Is it still using CPU time per a task manager? If it is still grinding away on the CPU, maybe let it sit for a long while and see what happens.

Electrum used to have a "coin control" functionality, but it looks like it has lost that capability at some point. That would've allowed you to send each individual UTXO from among the 600+, but I don't know whether that would've of worked in any case.

Edit: You have the right idea in that your final option would be to download and sync a full node wallet, and then import that private key. I assume you meant you'd download the Bitcoin Cash version of Bitcoin Unlimited.

Hmm, I just figured out that on current Electrum wallets, coin control is hidden by hiding the "Addresses" tab. To view it, hit CTRL+A. The problem is, this functionality seems to be missing from Electron Cash.

EDIT: Perhaps CTRL+A doesn't work on my Electron Cash because it has only a single non-zero UTXO right now. If I learn differently, I'll update.
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August 03, 2017, 11:20:48 PM
#70
So yeah, Electron Cash works just fine. Mostly.

This is a problem I have with Electrum as well, but back when I was mining, I have one address that had 600+ transactions. I managed to consolidate them down in Electrum and send them to my new Electrum wallet.

But when I try to send off my BCC using Electron Cash, the whole wallet hangs up when I import that address's private key... It's a nightmare. So I essentially have a whole BTC in that address that is stuck for the time being.

I've tried about 10 times to get it working with no results. I'm even thinking of downloading the entire blockchain with bitcoin unlimited to send it that way, but it's gonna' take a while. o_o

I assume you didn't do this consolidation until after the fork? If so, you may truly be stuck until a fix is released. If you consolidated before the fork, you should be able to use the seed from your new Electrum wallet in an instance of Electron Cash. That should work because the consolidation should've resulted in just a single UTXO.

Just out of curiousity, what happens when it hangs? Is it still using CPU time per a task manager? If it is still grinding away on the CPU, maybe let it sit for a long while and see what happens.

Electrum used to have a "coin control" functionality, but it looks like it has lost that capability at some point. That would've allowed you to send each individual UTXO from among the 600+, but I don't know whether that would've of worked in any case.

Edit: You have the right idea in that your final option would be to download and sync a full node wallet, and then import that private key. I assume you meant you'd download the Bitcoin Cash version of Bitcoin Unlimited.
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