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Topic: possible to get my bitcoin cash but leave my btc on core? (Read 217 times)

newbie
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awesome. thank you both very muchly!
legendary
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You can do it. And you don't even have to download the Bitcoin Cash chain to spend your coins.

1. Download Electron Cash[1] (only BCH is supported, so your BTC remains untouchable);
2. Create a new wallet with the private-keys from Core that are loaded with BCH.
3. Spend your BCH.

It's as simple as that. You can spend your BCH coins - and even delete Electron Cash after that - and keep using Core to manage your BTC.

[1] https://electroncash.org/
newbie
Activity: 58
Merit: 0
hey if anyone can help me, i been looking and cant find a definite answer.
is there a wallet i can use my private to collect my bitcoin cash, but it leaves my bitcoins on my core i run?
i have never tried to get them, but i dont want to run a new wallet for btc as i am comfortable with core and run a full node.

i would like to use my private key that has my bitcoins on it, and have a totally seperate wallet for bitcoin cash.

i looked at bitcoin.com wallet, electron cash and coinoni. they say the wallets can get the bitcoin cash, but it also says the bitcoins get loaded there too, which i dont want.

any help is great, thanks guys!
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