Topic: Question about October 25th altcoin (avoiding replay attacks and how to mine) (Read 107 times)

Seeing the two hard forks coming, I am far more interested in Bitcoin Gold than Segwit2x. My interest in Bitcoin Gold is that I do like GPU mining and would like to see an emphasis on that (although I also own hardware which will continue to mine in Bitcoin and do plan to purchase more). My disinterest in Segwit2x is primarily due to it wanting to use the same name, and so comes off as a hostile takeover. If it was dedicated to using it's own name though and competed purely on the merits of what it had to offer I'd probably be more interested. In any case, my inclination is to pull my Bitcoin out between the forks and just not hold any while I wait and see what comes of SegWit2x

Now, I maintain a single Electrum wallet running version 2.9.3 and their documentation  on the subject mentions features that I just don't see in my client.

http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/hardfork.html


So I was wondering if someone could tell me, clearly, how I would go about transferring my Bitcoin to Coinbase without also inadvertently sending Bitcoin Gold and to avoid replay protection and how I would at a later date access my Bitcoin Gold when clients become available. On a similar note, I am curious about if my addresses on Coinbase created prior to a given fork will exist across forks, even if they don't support it yet? So if, for example, Bitcoin Address A exists on Coinbase and then a hard fork occurs and then I send Bitcoin to Address A, but a replay attack causes the Bitcoin Gold to also go to Address A, will I have access to the Bitcoin Gold in address A when (if) support is made available? Of course, I'd prefer not having that scenario happen, just want to cover all my bases here.

For my other question on the topic, I was wondering what software I would need to start mining Bitcoin Gold and how that might work. Are there any planned pools I can join with existing software, or will new software need to be created before I can do anything to support it?