How can I manually decrypt or Crak Key in Electrum to get BCH?

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Quote from: globe-biz on May 07, 2018, 02:27:10 PM

The problem is I had a wallet with electrum of course and that wallet had a big balance then I moved the coins to another wallet about 3 months ago for security reasons.But I still have the original wallet but if I export the keys now it will show no balance and the new wallet was made after the cutoff so I need to decrypt each key individually.

You can open the electrum console tab (if not visible: 'View' -> 'Show console') and enter this command:

Code:

dumpprivkeys ("1addressone", "1addresstwo")

First check which addresses do contain your forked coins, then enter this command with your addresses in " " and seperated with a ','.
Afterwards you will be able to copy them and import them into your forked wallet.

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Quote from: globe-biz on May 07, 2018, 02:27:10 PM

Yes I of course have my words well guarded.I did it this way I am talking about after seeing a youtube video and it did work.
The problem is I had a wallet with electrum of course and that wallet had a big balance then I moved the coins to another wallet about 3 months ago for security reasons.But I still have the original wallet but if I export the keys now it will show no balance and the new wallet was made after the cutoff so I need to decrypt each key individually.I an pay $100 by btc if someone can help.

You should just be able to import your seed words into a Bitcoin Cash version of the Electrum wallet (I believe it is called Electron Cash).

That should generate all your private keys from that wallet.

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Quote from: Xynerise on May 07, 2018, 05:30:48 PM

Go to Wallet -> Private keys -> Export
Enter your password to get your private keys and matching addresses in plaintext json or csv format.

You said you created a new wallet, was it in the same Electrum?
maybe you're exporting the private keys of the new wallet instead of the old.
To change wallets in Electrum, click the file tab then click open, select a different wallet file from the list, and try again.

Just remember the golden rule when you do this. Once the Private Keys are exported and entered onto some wallet service, then it is regarded by many people to be "exploited" and not to be used again. Even the plaintext json or csv file leave traces on your hard drive, so be prepared to create a new wallet, after you have done this.

Also, those private keys should never be thrown away, because there are many other forked coins that could be extracted from that.

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Go to Wallet -> Private keys -> Export
Enter your password to get your private keys and matching addresses in plaintext json or csv format.

You said you created a new wallet, was it in the same Electrum?
maybe you're exporting the private keys of the new wallet instead of the old.
To change wallets in Electrum, click the file tab then click open, select a different wallet file from the list, and try again.

globe-biz

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Yes I of course have my words well guarded.I did it this way I am talking about after seeing a youtube video and it did work.
The problem is I had a wallet with electrum of course and that wallet had a big balance then I moved the coins to another wallet about 3 months ago for security reasons.But I still have the original wallet but if I export the keys now it will show no balance and the new wallet was made after the cutoff so I need to decrypt each key individually.I an pay $100 by btc if someone can help.

aleksej996

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Quote from: globe-biz on May 07, 2018, 02:14:22 PM

Ok let me explain better.Before I was in my wallet and I was taking each entry in the wallet, entry meaning when you see the payments and btc received and taking out the tansaction or or something and then decrypting it with a password and then I had a word file with all the keys decrypted and then I put those into the Bitcoin cash wallet and it gave me the bitcoin cash coins in the protoncash wallet.

I am actually even more confused. Do you maybe know your seed words? You can import those in your bitcoin cash wallet.
I found some tutorials on exporting private keys in Electrum as well https://medium.com/@kareninsf2/electrum-101-part-2-how-to-find-your-private-keys-to-extract-bitcoin-cash-for-tech-dummies-444091fc3815

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Ok let me explain better.Before I was in my wallet and I was taking each entry in the wallet, entry meaning when you see the payments and btc received and taking out the tansaction or or something and then decrypting it with a password and then I had a word file with all the keys decrypted and then I put those into the Bitcoin cash wallet and it gave me the bitcoin cash coins in the protoncash wallet.

aleksej996

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No, I don't think anyone here knows what you are talking about.

BCH private keys are the same as Bitcoin private keys. You literally just need to copy them to a different wallet that runs on Bitcoin Cash, I don't know why you wouldn't be able to simply import them if you already have them. Either way, whatever you have done to import your Bitcoin private keys, do the exact same thing, just in a Bitcoin Cash wallet.

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I know there is a way to export the keys manually I did it once but I can not see how to do it.Before I was cracking or decrypting each key one by one and I need to do this again manually not with the sweep or import function but I need to know how to crack each address or key Manually.Do you know what I am talking about please say yes! I need to do this now to get my bitcoin cash

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