[Solved] How to claim BTG from an Electrum wallet? - page 3.

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Quote from: ycir on November 24, 2017, 03:43:29 PM

This ONLY works for people with "1" address's, not 3 --- is there any method to work for a 3 address?? Can I import my private key ("3") into a new electrum wallet that supports ("1") address's?

This is the problem... you have a "3" type address... also known as "Pay to Script Hash" or "P2SH".

This type of address is typically used for "MultiSig" addresses which, as the name implies, requires multiple signatures from multiple private keys to be able to sign for messages. Due to this multi-key setup, they can often be difficult to port from one "chain" to another. Historically, they're also difficult to move from one wallet to another, as you can't just export a private key and then import/sweep that private key. Undecided

Additionally, Electrum generates "3" type addresses for it's "Two Factor Authentication" or "2FA" wallets.

Theoretically, it SHOULD be possible to recreate the MultiSig in Bitcoin Gold... but I suspect that at the moment, it would be a manual process and somewhat technical (ie. crafting raw transactions and signing them manually).

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This ONLY works for people with "1" address's, not 3 --- is there any method to work for a 3 address?? Can I import my private key ("3") into a new electrum wallet that supports ("1") address's?

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Quote from: HCP on November 24, 2017, 06:33:50 AM

Quote from: bitsamurai on November 24, 2017, 05:33:25 AM

Before Bitcoin Gold Fork i had some 0.01 BTC in my Electrum wallet. I moved away that fund only couple of two weeks ago.

I tried everything i can to claim my BTG:
Most notably using Coinomi wallet, and using their instructions https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000016909-i-didn-t-have-btc-in-coinomi-at-the-time-of-the-snapshot-how-do-i-claim-btg-. I imported the seed of my Electrum wallet restoring it in Coinomi,after i had made it empty for obvious security reasons.

This would not have worked correctly... Electrum seeds ARE NOT BIP39 compatible, with generally means that Electrum seeds ARE NOT COMPATIBLE with any other known wallet...

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Is there any way that i can claim this BTG? Cry

Yes, but it will need to be done manually... In your Electrum wallet, you need to go to your "Addresses" tab and look at ALL the addresses... receive and change... "used" and unused.

https://i.imgur.com/259rzvA.png

Export the private key for EVERY address that has a non-zero TX value. Some of them may not have any BTG (as they might have been empty at the time of the fork), but if you export all of them, you're won't miss any coins Wink

Don't forget to look through all your "change" as well as "receive" addresses... including both "used" and "unused".

Then you simply import all the private keys into the BTG wallet of your choice... and your BTG should show up

What you want to look for is all the addresses that you can find that has a non-zero "Tx" value... A non-zero "Tx" value means that the address MUST have received coins at some point:

This made the trick: Thanks a lot!

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Quote from: asdlolciterquit on November 24, 2017, 06:39:55 AM

i read a lot of these kind of thread, and i'm in the situation of the OP.

I'm wondering: is it sure that there will be in the next future an electrum-BTG wallet? Are they still working on it?

They offered a bounty for a Electrum fork some time ago. You can check it here[1].

That was all that came out of it:

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ElectrumX now has Bitcoin Gold support via Coinomi: kyuupichan/electrumx@f3fea9f

https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/issues/48#issuecomment-345377640

But there is nothing ready or easy to setup so far.

[1] https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/issues/48

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i read a lot of these kind of thread, and i'm in the situation of the OP.

I'm wondering: is it sure that there will be in the next future an electrum-BTG wallet? Are they still working on it?

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Quote from: bitsamurai on November 24, 2017, 05:33:25 AM

Before Bitcoin Gold Fork i had some 0.01 BTC in my Electrum wallet. I moved away that fund only couple of two weeks ago.

I tried everything i can to claim my BTG:
Most notably using Coinomi wallet, and using their instructions https://coinomi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/29000016909-i-didn-t-have-btc-in-coinomi-at-the-time-of-the-snapshot-how-do-i-claim-btg-. I imported the seed of my Electrum wallet restoring it in Coinomi,after i had made it empty for obvious security reasons.

This would not have worked correctly... Electrum seeds ARE NOT BIP39 compatible, with generally means that Electrum seeds ARE NOT COMPATIBLE with any other known wallet...

Quote

Is there any way that i can claim this BTG? Cry

Yes, but it will need to be done manually... In your Electrum wallet, you need to go to your "Addresses" tab and look at ALL the addresses... receive and change... "used" and unused.

What you want to look for is all the addresses that you can find that has a non-zero "Tx" value... A non-zero "Tx" value means that the address MUST have received coins at some point:

Export the private key for EVERY address that has a non-zero TX value. Some of them may not have any BTG (as they might have been empty at the time of the fork), but if you export all of them, you're won't miss any coins Wink

Don't forget to look through all your "change" as well as "receive" addresses... including both "used" and "unused".

Then you simply import all the private keys into the BTG wallet of your choice... and your BTG should show up

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[Edit: some cleaning up]
I tried to claim BTG coins into Coinomi wallet using these instructions .
But all addresses i tried resulted in the error of: "The private key does not contain any funds."
Am i missing something here?

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