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Script for transferring/claiming your coins on various Bitcoin forks
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Tutorial on using ymgve/bitcoin_fork_claimer #62

Closed fazlearefin closed 6 years ago

fazlearefin commented 6 years ago

I've written an easy to follow tutorial on using ymgve/bitcoin_fork_claimer to claim bitcoin forks. It might be helpful for people who are planning on claiming the forks. Maybe it can be linked from the README.md of ymgve/bitcoin_fork_claimer.

The tutorials are available here https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@thegripmaster/bitcoin-fork-claim-guide-or-claim-your-forked-bitcoins-from-trezor-ledger-nano-keepkey and https://github.com/fazlearefin/bitcoin-fork-claim-guide

Steve132 commented 6 years ago

While I don't see a lot of problems with this technically, don't you think it's kind of dangerous to advise people to put their hardware mnemonic into a webpage on a hot computer? Doesn't that really defeat the purpose of a hardware wallet? I feel like you need to have some more disclaimers about how intrinsically dangerous this is!

fazlearefin commented 6 years ago

@Steve132 Thanks for your input. I have updated the First Steps, 01. Generate the list of Path/Address/Public Key/Private Key, and Disclaimer sections on the dangers of not creating a new wallet and transferring the BTC to the new wallet before starting the fork claim.

forkdrop commented 6 years ago

Also, advising people to use findmycoins.ninja can be used to correlate their balances with their browser session and/or IP address. This is something we do not advise at forkdrop for this reason. https://forkdrop.io/#table-exchanges shows which exchanges are actually open for deposit for various coins and tracks the KYC status.

avialias commented 6 years ago

I have few Q.

I have btc on non sw address in Ledger. Do I have to move it to sw address to be able to pay smaller fees now and to use Lighting network?

How to do it in most secured way

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forkdrop commented 6 years ago

Do I have to move it to sw address to be able to pay smaller fees now and to use Lighting network?

You will need to move it to a wallet that is able to create LN channel open transactions, which is certain to support Segwit. The Eclair wallet will give a Segwit address to send BTC to. If you are wishing to just experiment with LN, I would suggest not moving your main savings onto a wallet like this until the LN software and network gets better - it is still very much early days. Instead it might make sense to purchase a small amount of BTC separately just for the purposes of experimenting with LN.

How to do it in most secured way

The safest way to move BTC off a Ledger wallet is to use the normal method the manufactures intended. If there are some advanced tasks you wish to do such as claiming forks with the bitcoin_fork_claimer tool, my site has a couple end-to-end guides for doing that safely: https://forkdrop.io/novices-guide-to-claiming-forked-bitcoin-value

Steve132 commented 6 years ago

To get the segwit 'discount' on all future transactions you need to have your outputs in a segwit address. Consolidating your outputs into a segwit address now while the fees are low with a low-priority transaction that isn't time sensitive is a smart idea.

Doing so will NOT immediately get you access to the lightning network. In order to get that you must fund an on-chain transaction to a payment channel to a lightning node to open liquidity with that node. It's more complicated than that and I'm not going to post a guide on how to do it here.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 9:02 AM, avialias notifications@github.com wrote:

I have few Q.

I have btc on non sw address in Ledger. Do I have to move it to sw address to be able to pay smaller fees now and to use Lighting network?

How to do it in most secured way

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 18:00 Forkdrop.io notifications@github.com wrote:

Also, advising people to use findmycoins.ninja can be used to correlate their balances with their browser session and/or IP address. This is something we do not advise at forkdrop for this reason. https://forkdrop.io/#table-exchanges shows which exchanges are actually open for deposit for various coins and tracks the KYC status.

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avialias commented 6 years ago

Thx guys.

Always ready to read some tutorials. ;)

Hodl...just hodl...it will go back... I know...I'm in from 2011. I survived lots of bumps and dumps... I survived Mt Gox... Lost then 5btc...wounded will I get it ever back...

Invest smart...read about IRS laws..and mining and collecting forks...

;)

This is like television technology... It passed 40years before it was globally accepted...same here...

In 2011 on bitcoin forum was joke... Grandson to grampa: Grandpa You had 1 whole BTC? Yes, son...

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018, 15:43 Steven Braeger notifications@github.com wrote:

To get the segwit 'discount' on all future transactions you need to have your outputs in a segwit address. Consolidating your outputs into a segwit address now while the fees are low with a low-priority transaction that isn't time sensitive is a smart idea.

Doing so will NOT immediately get you access to the lightning network. In order to get that you must fund an on-chain transaction to a payment channel to a lightning node to open liquidity with that node. It's more complicated than that and I'm not going to post a guide on how to do it here.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 9:02 AM, avialias notifications@github.com wrote:

I have few Q.

I have btc on non sw address in Ledger. Do I have to move it to sw address to be able to pay smaller fees now and to use Lighting network?

How to do it in most secured way

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 18:00 Forkdrop.io notifications@github.com wrote:

Also, advising people to use findmycoins.ninja can be used to correlate their balances with their browser session and/or IP address. This is something we do not advise at forkdrop for this reason. https://forkdrop.io/#table-exchanges shows which exchanges are actually open for deposit for various coins and tracks the KYC status.

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fazlearefin commented 6 years ago

I just want to add that most of the BTC forks, except BCH, aren't worth shit to risk your precious BTC. So if you are unsure of what you are doing, stay out of trying to get the free forks of BTC.

avialias commented 6 years ago

Can you take a look at forkdrop/forkdrop_suite git project? You are a proactive guy, so it would be great if you could assets scripts on that project and give a short tutorial on them.

Git project is linked to this site Forkdrop.io and I think it can be very helpful to new people in crypto.

I'm not associated with for drop.io just stamble on it, and don't have php experience and Linux experience so I need little help.

I have big number of btc addresses with small balances and its tedious work to claim forks...

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 13:11 Fazle Arefin notifications@github.com wrote:

I've written an easy to follow tutorial on using ymgve/bitcoin_fork_claimer to claim bitcoin forks. It might be helpful for people who are planning on claiming the forks. Maybe it can be linked from the README.md of ymgve/bitcoin_fork_claimer.

The tutorials are available here https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@thegripmaster/bitcoin-fork-claim-guide-or-claim-your-forked-bitcoins-from-trezor-ledger-nano-keepkey and https://github.com/fazlearefin/bitcoin-fork-claim-guide

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forkdrop commented 6 years ago

We have a bunch of guides for Forkdrop Suite at: https://forkdrop.io/suite If you have a number of addresses and balances, following the Intermediate's guide is advisable: https://forkdrop.io/intermediates-guide-to-efficient-forked-bitcoin-value-claiming-record-keeping

By the by, blockchain.info's .onion gateway is down this week which is defeating claim-prep.py and I am working on a patch to utilize Electrum servers via Tor instead. That should be ready in a day or two. Will announce on twitter.com/forkdrop