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legendary
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To get my BCash, I went the slow route of having to sync Bitcoin ABC from scratch, which was a nightmare that took up to a week.

I would like to access my BTG faster... is there a trusted Electrum equivalent where I export the private keys at?

Since I emptied the wallet.dat to access BCash, I can just use these now-empty-private-keys-in-the-BTC-blockchain in a BTG wallet without having to sync Bitcoin Gold Core. I will do this in a separate computer just in case but still I would like how to do this in a way that's considered safe. I just don't want to be syncing gigabytes of full nodes to access every fork, it's too time consuming. And I still didn't even get my Bitcoin Diamond, Super Bitcoin, and a bunch of other forks that are coming soon, and believe it or not there are decent amounts of money there.

There is no SPV wallet for bitcoin gold.
However, as there are many forks, an investment of $100 may be helpful in getting your forked coins easily.

If you have a phone, coinomi will be there. If you can use graphical virtualization on your computer, an install of an Android emulator can be put onto your machine from developer.android.com.
Alternatively, there may be a way to sign the transaction without downloading any of the chain by adapting the transactions you used to sign your bitcoins out of your wallet if you have the unsigned transaction as the inputs and outputs may be the same/similar (though I haven't greatly inspected that chain so wouldn't be completely sure).

I have used Android emulators before, Nox and Bluestacks for example come to my mind, but I just can't trust that with my private keys... even if they are emtpy. These empty keys, also got coins on the other forks, so if they got these private keys, they could get Bitcoin Diamond, SPBTC and the rest of the forks to come... it's a complicated thing. I may not risk it and go through the annoying process of syncing a full bitcoin gold node... oh boy, im starting to hate the damn forks.
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https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory
To get my BCash, I went the slow route of having to sync Bitcoin ABC from scratch, which was a nightmare that took up to a week.

I would like to access my BTG faster... is there a trusted Electrum equivalent where I export the private keys at?

Since I emptied the wallet.dat to access BCash, I can just use these now-empty-private-keys-in-the-BTC-blockchain in a BTG wallet without having to sync Bitcoin Gold Core. I will do this in a separate computer just in case but still I would like how to do this in a way that's considered safe. I just don't want to be syncing gigabytes of full nodes to access every fork, it's too time consuming. And I still didn't even get my Bitcoin Diamond, Super Bitcoin, and a bunch of other forks that are coming soon, and believe it or not there are decent amounts of money there.

There is no SPV wallet for bitcoin gold.
However, as there are many forks, an investment of $100 may be helpful in getting your forked coins easily.

If you have a phone, coinomi will be there. If you can use graphical virtualization on your computer, an install of an Android emulator can be put onto your machine from developer.android.com.
Alternatively, there may be a way to sign the transaction without downloading any of the chain by adapting the transactions you used to sign your bitcoins out of your wallet if you have the unsigned transaction as the inputs and outputs may be the same/similar (though I haven't greatly inspected that chain so wouldn't be completely sure).
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1252
To get my BCash, I went the slow route of having to sync Bitcoin ABC from scratch, which was a nightmare that took up to a week.

I would like to access my BTG faster... is there a trusted Electrum equivalent where I export the private keys at?

Since I emptied the wallet.dat to access BCash, I can just use these now-empty-private-keys-in-the-BTC-blockchain in a BTG wallet without having to sync Bitcoin Gold Core. I will do this in a separate computer just in case but still I would like how to do this in a way that's considered safe. I just don't want to be syncing gigabytes of full nodes to access every fork, it's too time consuming. And I still didn't even get my Bitcoin Diamond, Super Bitcoin, and a bunch of other forks that are coming soon, and believe it or not there are decent amounts of money there.
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