Topic: [Solved] How to claim BTG from an Electrum wallet? (Read 23558 times)

For a 2FA wallet or a MultiSig wallet I suggest you try https://www.excrypts.org/

If your address starts with a "3", you either have a 2FA wallet or a MultiSig wallet...

Either way, currently, the only "safe" way to get access to these BTG coins would be to use BTG Core and handcraft the transactions necessary to recover the coins. You might want to read the thread here (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/tutorial-how-to-extract-bitcoin-gold-from-a-2fa-electrum-wallet-step-by-step-2550529) if you want to give it a go, or you can PM me if you want.

HCP I tried to claim BTG coins into Coinomi wallet using many instructions too and all addresses i tried resulted in the error of: "The private key does not contain any funds." Who can to help me pls?

On COINOMI site "The address has no funds"
There are multiple causes for that error
The address starts with a "3" and is protected by multisig or is a segwit address
We are hard at work implementing these advanced options and latest technologies into Coinomi. We will make an announcement once they are done.

My address starts with a "3" its mean that I need to wait update for coinomi which will be working with multisig? Or I can to try extract with BTG CORE? THX for help!

Contacted HCP, he helped me to free my BTGs from a 2FA Electrum wallet in ~ 30 minutes 

This website appears to be a SCAM... being spammed by a bunch of newbies... the official site is www.coinomi.com and they have ONLY (officially) released a wallet for Android

Much easier with coinomi. Available for desktop - https://www.coinomiwallet.org/

Everything worked like a charm! I created a new Electrum wallet first and moved my btc there. Then exported my private keys, luckily I only used two addresses. However, I could not get the Bitcoin Gold Core wallet to sync (and it required 150GB to do so), and I also didn't want to actually download Coinomi on my phone. I try to avoid using my phone for anything different than checking Blockfolio. So instead, I read that I can use Android emulator on the PC.

BlueStacks emulator worked best for me and is the easiest to operate. Once you set up your Google Play account on the emulator, find the Coinomi app and download it. In the app click on the BTG wallet and click Advanced Settings. Replace the Derivation Path with M/44H/0H/0H. I saw this in an article where they give the following Hint too:

If you have more than one Bitcoin wallets in your Coinomi and want to claim the equivalent BTG you will have to repeat the above process, replacing each time the last zero with the (zero-based) account index, so for the second wallet this would be M/44H/0H/1H, for the third wallet it would be M/44H/0H/2H, and so forth.

If you already had added a BTG wallet without clicking Advanced Settings, you can delete it by pressing and holding on the Overview icon next to it. My laptop has touchscreen so I didn't have any problems with that. I tried with Right mouse button but it didn't work.

After your wallet is set up, go to the top right menu and click Sweep wallet. There you can put your private key which you exported from your btc wallet. I'd definitely recommend moving your btc to a new Electrum wallet before exporting any keys, because it takes 30 sec, some satoshis which equal 2-3USD , but it's much more secure.

Good luck!

If it's in an Electrum 2FA or MultiSig wallet (ie. "3" addresses)... No.

If it's just a "standard wallet" that is generating "1" addresses... Yes.

I haven't got my bitcoin gold but reading all of the conversation here it makes me think that it's totally complicated. Is there any other easy way?

Complicated in so much that it requires you to restore your 2FA wallet with 2FA disabled, get the xprvs from the wallet file, find the addresses that contain coins, then collect redeem scripts, scriptpubkeys, vouts etc for the UTXOs controlled by those addresses and then manually create a transaction in BTG Core and then sign it with the appropriate private keys generated from the xprvs... Risky? Not really, the only risk involved is that you get your "fee" calculation wrong and spend more than you should on fees or you put the BTG address in wrong and send your coins to the wrong place

If you screw anything else up, chances are that BTG Core will just reject your command with an error and you can try again.

I walked thomasanderson7 through this process on skype yesterday... took maybe an hour to demonstrate the process with one address. He then did the rest himself.


NOTE: If you're going to do it yourself, you need to have BTG Core downloaded, installed and fully synced.

I'm offering a service to extract Bitcoin Gold from a 2fa Electrum Wallet, I'll take only 5% of the recovered BTG as a tip. The whole process it's very complicated and risky, yes, and requires a lot of time but it's doable, I will take care of everything, if you are interested hit me a PM or add me on Skype: [email protected]

I suggest you to do this, before BTG actually fails, as everyone are saying sell ASAP, so contact me and I'll take care of you. You won't even need to download the entire blockchain of the BTG Core Wallet, I will send BTG to a Coinomi wallet of yours if you wanna hodl them or to an exchange if you wanna sell them (if you are not pratical I can help with this too, don't worry).

P.S. Before you do this, you have to empty your Bitcoin Wallet from Bitcoin sending them to a brand NEW wallet, same with Bitcoin Cash, send them to a new Electron or another BCH wallet, so when you have to extract the BTG the wallet has to be empty from BTC and BCH

If you don't trust I can walk you through step by step

I can pay you guys, I will not take a lot of your time, just half an hour for 7% of my BTG (2,15), please, help me on Skype, hit me a PM

Thank you for gide, now I will hold BTG while it grows enough.

I suggest you take one private key with a small balance as of the 10-24 date, and work only with that one key. Get it done and verify success.

Then do another.

Really, there is no rush.

Otherwise, wait and expect that better means to retrieve the coins will become available. Think about it. If the BTG developers want to success, they need people to be able to get their coins and use them.

It *is* doable... it just isn't a straightforward "point and click" exercise... you need to find all the UTXOs contained in each 2FA address and manually create and sign a transaction to move these UTXOs to the BTG wallet address of your choice (personal wallet or exchange etc). This means typing in a bunch of commands on the Electrum and BitcoinGold Core wallet consoles.

It also means that you need to have the BitcoinGold "Core" wallet downloaded, installed and fully synced.

Im in the same boat with the 2FA Electrum wallet and BTG. I think at this point its best to wait until Coinomi releases support for the import.

Can someone help me extracting my Bitcoin Gold from a 2fa Electrum Wallet step by step on Skype? I can offer 7% of the amount of Bitcoin Gold I manage to extract in return (not much, 7% of like 2,15, but it's still money), I find this process really difficult and I don't wanna lose my Bitcoin Gold

Ah! I didn't think of that.  I have a Trezor.  I haven't even looked into setting up currencies other than bitcoin in it.  Good idea.  I plan on just holding onto the BTG for a while. 

Yes. You basically sent your BTG from your Electrum address to a new address created by your Coinomi wallet.

Honestly, I would trust Coinomi more than all the other BTG wallets currently available in the Bitcoin Gold website.

If you have a Trezor/Ledger Nano S, store your coins there. If not, keep them in your Coinomi wallet if you plan to hold, or send them to an exchange if you plan to sell.

Always glad to help

Thank you so much!  That worked perfectly!  I'm rich now! 

Do you think it's safe to leave it in Coinomi now?  That swept it from my previous private key in Electrum to a new private key in Coinomi, if I understand it right.  Right?  So I shouldn't have to go sending it to a new address or anything, right?

Thanks!  You're awesome!