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RE: Step By Step: Getting Your Bitcoin Cash out of a Bitcoin Paper Wallet
I moved my BTC from the paper wallet I had at the time of the fork so BCH is all that is in it and I can see the balance using https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/ but when I downloaded the Electron Cash and follow your steps on the Addresses tab I do see my Public key but the amount is zero. By the way the paper wallet has a BIP38 passphase (encrypted)
It sounds like what is happening to you is the same thing I described that happened to me. Use bitaddress.org and ensure you're not importing the wrong key. The public address you're looking at may correspond to the uncompressed private key but you might be importing a compressed private key. That's what happened to me. If you load up your private key on bitaddress, you'll be able to see both the compressed and uncompressed private keys. Did you notice the public address in Electron Cash? Is it different than what you see on blockchair? If so, that's what happened to me. Just make sure you have the right private key for the right public address using bitaddress.
The public address was the same in Electron Cash and Blockchair I also first tried the Encrypted Private Key which started with a 6 and Electron Cash wouldn't even allow me to enter that so I created 2 wallets one with the Private Key WIF Compressed that starts with an L and also one with the Private Key WIF that starts with a 5. Neither wallet has a balance
Are you sure you're using the latest version of Electron Cash? If it imported the same address and shows the same address as the block explorer than the problem must be on your local wallet. You may need to uninstall it completely and remove your local folders (on a mac, I mean
.electron-cash) Please be careful though, as that's where your wallets are (always have multiple backups of your wallets and keys, etc).If the import shows the exact same public address then you may not be on the correct chain. At that point, I'd suggest hitting up reddit or IRC. I had a bunch of issues with Electron Cash before updating my OS. After that, it worked just fine.
I downloaded today and it says I'm in Electron-Cash version 2.9.3 guess maybe I will have to wait for the Blockchain.info wallet to support Bitcoin Cash
You're importing a blockchain.info wallet? If so, keep in mind you have many different addresses there. It can get confusing really quickly. Good luck.
No I was going to import into Electron Cash and then send to Bittrex but Blockchain.info has announced that they will be supporting a BCH wallet in 8 weeks and I'm familiar with moving coins from paper wallets into Blockchain and then to exchanges.
Cool! Glad to hear they'll be providing that support.
Hi Lukestokes, great post, love your videos as well, very valuable information.
Hey whofford, I am also having issues getting my BCC from a paper wallet. I have used bitaddress.org to get all the correct private keys and tried coinomi on android as well. I'm on a mac, not sure if that makes any difference, it's frustrating! I guess i'm in no hurry, and might as well hold them as who know what might happen! Hopefully more supported wallets will come soon and one of them will work.
Yeah I looked at Coinomi but that is only for an android and I have an iPhone. Good luck
Well I followed the steps again from Lukestokes and when I opened the Electron Cash wallet this time I saw a balance and I didn't do anything... I also found another helpful article
http://www.curvingspace.com/2017/08/15/bitcoin-how-to-claim-your-bitcoincash-after-the-hard-fork/