Topic: LoyceV's Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service) - page 2. (Read 30431 times)

I wanted a full collection of them :-) So I got  motivation not only get some money from forks, but also collect forks. It's a kind of irrational motivation, just like collecting physical coins for numismatic purposes.

Do I understand correct that some forks can be claimed solely through their own wallet, and this can be done only provided you have synced the whole blockchain, so this is the very reason why claiming some forks (such forks) takes a lot of time?

Trezor also delisted BSV. They say it was causing potential security risk.
Ledger claims they support BSV, but when you search their list of supported coins, then no BSV there. Probably also delisted.

And I discovered an interesting fact: cheap forks (but still sellable) may sometimes show very strong growth for a short time. For example, some old cheap forks were showing enorm growth in May last year though for a very short time, then they returned to their ordinary supercheap price.

It would be perfect to get all forks, every single claimable fork. And hold them in a hardware wallet, may be just for such situation.

Unfortunately, it is probably not very real to have such huge work done (claim every single fork). If I understand things correct, some forks are much more difficult to claim than others.

And I checked also many hardware wallets, and discovered that they support just few forks. Some of them support 2 forks, some 5 forks...like this.
I didn't find even a software wallet which would support all forks. Not coinomi, not guarda....

If you keep altcoins in hardware wallet, how dependent you are from the model of hardware wallet?

Btw, I also wonder how it works technically, when the same seed "remembers" and "keeps" many altcoins while every altcoin has its own blockchain? Every altcoin then should have its own seed. But somehow all of them are stored in the wallet with only 1 seed. How? :-)

How do you determine which forks are worth to claim and which ones are worthless?

But the ones that have zero or next to zero rate, they may probably raise in their value in future, can't they?

How many btc forks (number)  you think are worth to claim

and how many you think aren't?

@dragonvslinux: it dropped quite a lot, but you'll need to multiply the BCD value by 10.

Bump!

I haven't figured out yet how to do this with BSV.

Instructions for my Fork claiming service.
Note that the prices at the start of this topic is very outdated.

First, there's this:

I can't claim all Forks, only the ones that are worth it. I can extract these Forks:
BCH: $480
BSV: $180
BCH-A now called eCash: $14
BTG: $25
BCD: $9
Those values are current estimates per Bitcoin (or Forkcoin for Forks of Forks) you owned when the Fork was created.

I can claim your Forkcoins for you, but for that, I'm going to need your private keys. Before sending them, make sure your Bitcoin is moved to another wallet, and confirmed (don't risk your Bitcoin for Forkcoins). After sending your private keys, you should consider them compromised and never use the same wallet again (but keep a backup anyway).
I charge 10% for doing this (negotiable for large amounts: make me an offer). It's probably not worth my time to do this for very small amounts.

Don't send private keys from a standard email that doesn't encrypt messages.
The easiest way to send private keys (or seed words, depending on your wallet) is if you create a Protonmail account. My email:
This way, the email has end-to-end encryption and should be secure. There's of course always the risk of your (or my) computer being compromised.
Alternatively, you can send half of each private key to my Protonmail email, and the other half by Bitcointalk PM. This way the parts don't end up on the same email account.

If you can't get the private keys, I'm going to need your wallet.dat. In that case I suggest setting a new password, emailing the wallet, then sending the password by PM. Please discuss possible other wallet formats before sending files.

Together with your private keys, please send addresses where you want your Forkcoins to be send to.
BCH, BTG and BCD can be traded (without KYC up to 2 Bitcoin per day, but DYOR) on Binance. I haven't found a trusted site for BSV and BCH-A yet. You're free to try an instance exchange at BestChange.com for BSV (but at your own risk if they disappear with your money).
Note that some sites mix up the names for BCH (higher value at the moment) and BCH-A (lower value). Be careful to use the correct chain!
For BCH-A, I have no idea, where to securely exchange them.
Since the value isn't that high, you can store BSV on for instance Coinomi on Android and create a legacy paper wallet from bitaddress.org where you store the BCH-A. Just write "BCH-A Shitfork" on it in case it ever gains any value (unlikely).

If you send me different deposit addresses for each Forkcoin, make sure you have the right chain! If you have them send to the wrong chain at an exchange, your coins are most likely lost.

If you claimed BCH from electroncash, then moved it to a hardware wallet.  But you did this after the bitcoin SV fork date.

Find which addresses hold coins, get some Fork dust on BCH/BSV/BCH-A to enforce replay protection, move your funds, shred the drive
BSV "Electrum" clone is weird, I prefer Coinomi. And I definitely don't trust the software.