Get Bitcoin Cash from Electrum using Blockchain.info

TryNinja

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Quote from: IP_MAN on November 17, 2017, 07:37:03 AM

I know I can use Electron Cash to add Electrum's seed to use the BCH but it seems there is chance I may lose my BTC and BCH, and I don't want to take a risk (reference : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/do-not-use-electron-cash-2059091)

OP probably just had a malware and losing his coins was his fault. I used Electron Cash, my friends used Electron Cash, a HUGE part of the BTC/BCH community used Electron Cash, and I haven't seen anywhere more reports of people losing their coins by using Electron Cash.

His account was inactive since 2016 and suddenly, he made that post and went offline again. Maybe just a troll?

If you are that worried, import your wallet in a offline environment, use it to sign a transaction and broadcast it with a online device. Your private keys will be 100% safe.

xdrpx

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Yes, you'll be able to export your private keys from electrum and import them into your Blockchain.info wallet. Before doing this, to play safe from any replay attacks (I know BCH is protected against it, but just incase for the extra paranoid) I would suggest you move your BTC from your current electrum wallet and send / transfer them to another one. Then, use the old private keys from the previous wallet to import into blockchain.info to get your BCH.

Also since you mentioned about electrum not supporting BCH, and also even if you know there's a fork of electrum that supports withdrawing BCH, you should still read https://electrum.org/bcc.txt to help understand the logic behind why BCH header's validations is less secure and thus out of scope for now.

IP_MAN

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I want to use the BCH receiving from the hard fork but Electrum doesn't support BCH yet so I am going to use Blockchain.info to get it.

Unfortunately, Electrum's seed format is not supported by any other wallet so I wonder if I can export all of my BTC address' private keys from Electrum then add them to Blockchain.info ? Is it similar or same thing with adding the seed ?

I know I can use Electron Cash to add Electrum's seed to use the BCH but it seems there is chance I may lose my BTC and BCH, and I don't want to take a risk (reference : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/do-not-use-electron-cash-2059091)

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