As much as I know, in order to claim forks for bitcoins which are in software wallet, one needs first to transfer them from their addresses somewhere else, and after that use adresses (on which btc were when forks appeared) with zero balance (for security reasons).
But what if the wallet with btc in it is a hardware wallet?
Should it be done the same way?
Yes. Don't risk your Bitcoins, so send them to a secure new address before exposing the private key to anything else.
Just to add to LoyceV answer, you should create a new wallet if your seed is exposed. Not a new address in the same wallet.
It is possible to wipe any hardware wallet?
Just put the wrong pin 3 times and it is wiped out. Just generate a new wallet.
I have claimed only one BTC fork so far, and I have not even consumed it in such a way that I sold it or used it in any other way. Personally, I consider all these BTC forks to be something that really does not make sense, and there is no doubt that some of them caused (and still cause) great confusion among potential investors.
Forks may be worth a considerable amount of money if they are converted to btc as fast as possible. They are all scams but they are worth money when forked.
bch for example was worth 0.1 btc when it was forked.
If someone is smart enough and sold all forks anyone could easily increasetheir btc holding by 15-25% just by solding all forks. (it takes some time but it isn't a security problem if you move your btc)
Ofc now those forks are worthless and nobody will get even 1% of their btc value in forks.
I claimed all btc forks that I could and it was well worth my time.
I even claimed the recent ethw fork, which is still worth about 0.01 eth.
