Ok then let me post this and I expect some of you to call me an idiot here but here goes.
I have paper wallets and my plan to get BCH is this...
1. Create new paper wallets and using bitcoin core wallet as a middle man I'll transfer stash to new paper wallets.
2. Use a BCH software wallet and insert my old private keys (that are now empty)
(Which BCH wallet do I use? Is there more than one?)
3. When I want to trade them, send them to Kraken.
What am I missing?
Edit. Morning JJG!
Should I respond publicly?
I will give some disclosure, here.
I have had a bit of a bitch with BCH...
I had been planning to use the Ledger Nano S for splitting of the coins, but they were on back order, or at least I was too slow to order mine, so I was not able to move my coins onto the LNS before the split.
Therefore, once I got the LNS, about August 10, I used my 12 word blockchain.info wallet seed to reseed the LNS.
At the time, I had 57 bitcoin addresses on blockchain.info wallet, and 34 addresses with bitcoin balances, and 33 addresses with bitcoin balances as of the time of the BCH fork.
The LNS recognized 12 of my bitcoin addresses - but only one of the addresses had a bitcoin balance (and therefore was able to split the BCH from that one recognized address).
So my main issue is trying to figure out a way to get he LNS to recognize either my remaining 45 bitcoin addresses or at least the remaining 32 addresses that have BCH at the time of the hardfork split. Actually, I looked up one of my 32 bitcoin addresses on the BCH fork, and it showed that there was a BCH balance on there.
http://blockdozer.com/insight/address/18akLArKa9oAWNCaGW9c3vH81dnhBfPyLIf you look at the same bitcoin address on the bitcoin blockchain, you can verify that I moved the bitcoins from that address on 8/18/17
https://blockchain.info/tx/f3f4920519786698826d5650b0f2c90b8fa31d952dc22037aa92e19dd155c233So, yeah, it appears that all my BCH are still reachable through my various blockchain.info wallet addresses. I just have to get to some kind of BCH interface in which I can plug in my 12 word seed and to see the 32 addresses that should have BCH on them... and then to be able to move or store them.
A few more things that I did in this seemingly never ending search for BCH project: 1) I contacted ledger support and I also wrote a thread on the ledger subreddit, 2) I tried reclaiming my BCH through Electron cash, Breadwallet and BTC.com, and no luck finding even one satoshi-like element of a BCH with any of those services 3) I ordered a trezor and an expedited shipping (because I have some of my own availability issues) to see if the trezor splitting mechanism might be faster and more efficient (actually on blockchain.info the support rep said that the 12 word seed worked well on mycelium and on the trezor, and I tested the mycelium on my iphone, which also worked for me for BTC but so far, mycelium does not have no BCH splitting function, so I thought that maybe I could try out the trezor, WTF?)
O.k.? Have I written enough of a book in the tribulations to try to claim BCH through the blockchain.info seed?