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Cash in on Bitcoin Cash

At Blockchain, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users to interact with the digital economy in new, meaningful ways. In November, we revealed our plan to deliver on the growing demand we’ve seen for Bitcoin Cash. Starting today, we’re supporting Bitcoin Cash with full functionality through the same web wallet users know and love.

With Bitcoin Cash joining our existing lineup of digital currencies, users now have a full suite of options and can easily toggle between digital currencies to send and request funds, safely manage balances, and monitor market prices – all from one central place.

If you had bitcoin in your Blockchain wallet prior to August 1st, get excited because you’ll see an equal amount of Bitcoin Cash in your wallet now! New to Bitcoin Cash? Users can get started by simply trading bitcoin and ether for Bitcoin Cash using our exchange integration.

Just like with bitcoin and ether, users hold their Bitcoin Cash private keys, meaning they always have full, exclusive access to their funds with their backup phrase.

Not on web? Don’t fret. We’ll be rolling out full support for Bitcoin Cash on mobile by the end of Q1 2018. We’ll keep you in the loop here and on Twitter as we continue to build on this new addition to our wallet. Still have questions about how Bitcoin Cash works in your Blockchain wallet? Visit our Support Center .

*Don’t have a Blockchain wallet? Sign up to get started with Bitcoin Cash and other digital currencies today! *

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I had a fraction of BTC on blockchain.info before the 1st of August and I didn't touch them at all afterwards.

I never got my private keys (nor the 12 words) from my blockchain.info wallet (or if I did god knows where they are).

Question: if I try to get my private keys (bip39) now will they be the same so that I can get BCH following this guide http://www.coinpurveyor.com/how-to-claim-bitcoin-cash-from-blockchain-wallet/?

Haven't looked at those guides in particular, but I was able to redeem BCH from a blockchain.info wallet by exporting my private keys following this guide: https://bl4nkcode.info/bitcoin/how_to_export_blockchain_wallet_private_key, and then importing them into Electron-Cash.

Blockchain.info supports this now. Go to https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/settings/info Settings-general page and scroll to the Bitcoin Cash section. I was able to recover my amounts completely.

From August 22nd 2017, limited Bitcoin Cash support is coming to Blockchain.info over the next 8 weeks.

Blockchain.info now has BCH support. You can view your BCH balance under Settings -> General.

They have some information about this on the Blockchain Support Center: Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

When logging into your Blockchain wallet you'll receive a notification like this:

From here, if you navigate to Settings -> General and scroll to the bottom, you'll see the following:

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Upon clicking 'Show Bitcoin Cash Balance' you'll be shown a dialog message telling you what Bitcoin Cash is, how it's different from Bitcoin and a few other bits of useful info. At the bottom of this dialog box is the following button:

Upon clicking this button you'll be shown another dialog box containing your BCH balance and its current value in your wallet's primary currency.

Here you'll have the option to:

1. Keep Bitcoin Cash - Keep it in your Blockchain wallet, available to view at any time under Settings -> General.
2. Exchange Bitcoin Cash - Directly exchange it for Bitcoin or Ether.
3. Send Bitcoin Cash - Transfer it to a different Bitcoin Cash address.

Dismissing the dialog has the same affect as clicking "Keep Bitcoin Cash"; don't worry though, your Bitcoin Cash balance and both the "Exchange Bitcoin Cash" and "Send Bitcoin Cash" options are now permanently available under Settings -> General.

What The Bitcoin Cash “BCH” Hard Fork Means for Blockchain Wallet Users

We’ve received questions about the Bitcoin Cash Fork (known as BCH) that is scheduled to activate on August 1st and how it will impact individual users. Our top priority is the safety of customer funds. Though we are actively monitoring network conditions and will do everything we can to minimize the impact on you, it may be necessary to temporarily cease broadcasting transactions for a short period of time. If it is, we will let you know.

If you have a Blockchain wallet, it is essential that you retain your wallet and corresponding recovery phrase and not delete them, even if you empty the BTC balance. Also if you are considering withdrawing funds from exchanges that will not support BCH, it is safe to withdraw to your Blockchain wallet.

In the event of two separate blockchains after August 1, 2017 we will support the longest chain. As of today, we have no immediate plans to fully support the Bitcoin Cash fork within our main product. But, if BCH develops into an actual chain and market, you will be able to use your recovery phrase to export your funds and use them on that chain, regardless of whether or not Blockchain chooses to support it.

Everyday you can choose what to do with the bitcoins in your Blockchain wallet. While no immediate action is required, the current network changes serve as a helpful reminder to have your recovery phrase written down if you haven’t already. Check out this blog for more info about how you can find your recovery phrase.

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In the search for Anaïs Nin, one of the first few links shows a picture of a man. Why? Since Nin is a woman, I can’t figure out why. Can you show some reason for this? Who is he? If you click on the picture a group of pictures of Nin and no mention of that man. Is it an error?

Repair the Yahoo Search App.

Yahoo Search App from the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I went to the Yahoo Troubleshooting page but the article that said to do a certain 8 steps to fix the problem with Yahoo Services not working and how to fix the problem. Of course they didn't work.

I contacted Samsung thru their Samsung Tutor app on my phone. I gave their Technican access to my phone to see if there was a problem with my phone that stopped the Yahoo Search App from working. He went to Yahoo and I signed in so he could try to fix the Yahoo Search App not working. He also used another phone, installed the app from the Google Play Store to see if the app would do any kind of search thru the app. The Yahoo Search App just wasn't working.

I also had At&t try to help me because I have UVERSE for my internet service. My internet was working perfectly. Their Technical Support team member checked the Yahoo Search App and it wouldn't work for him either.

We can go to www.yahoo.com and search for any topic or website. It's just the Yahoo Search App that won't allow anyone to do web searches at all.

I let Google know that the Yahoo Search App installed from their Google Play Store had completely stopped working on May 18, 2018.

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Yahoo Search App from the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ phone stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I went to the Yahoo Troubleshooting page but the article that said to do a certain 8 steps to fix the problem with Yahoo Services not working and how to fix the problem. Of course they didn't work.

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Cash in on Bitcoin Cash

At Blockchain, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users to interact with the digital economy in new, meaningful ways. In November, we revealed our plan to deliver on the growing demand we’ve seen for Bitcoin Cash. Starting today, we’re supporting Bitcoin Cash with full functionality through the same web wallet users know and love.

With Bitcoin Cash joining our existing lineup of digital currencies, users now have a full suite of options and can easily toggle between digital currencies to send and request funds, safely manage balances, and monitor market prices – all from one central place.

If you had bitcoin in your Blockchain wallet prior to August 1st, get excited because you’ll see an equal amount of Bitcoin Cash in your wallet now! New to Bitcoin Cash? Users can get started by simply trading bitcoin and ether for Bitcoin Cash using our exchange integration.

Just like with bitcoin and ether, users hold their Bitcoin Cash private keys, meaning they always have full, exclusive access to their funds with their backup phrase.

Not on web? Don’t fret. We’ll be rolling out full support for Bitcoin Cash on mobile by the end of Q1 2018. We’ll keep you in the loop here and on Twitter as we continue to build on this new addition to our wallet. Still have questions about how Bitcoin Cash works in your Blockchain wallet? Visit our Support Center .

*Don’t have a Blockchain wallet? Sign up to get started with Bitcoin Cash and other digital currencies today! *

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I am pretty much a Bitcoin novice. Bought some a few years ago, they went into my Blockchain.info wallet and I only checked it again a few days ago. It says I can get the same amount of Bitcoin Cash as I had in actual Bitcoins. It's not very clear whether this will do anything to my Bitcoin value or whether it just gives you a load of Bitcoin cash too. I don't want to do anything to risk my Bitcoins obviously. What do I need to do to "download" my Bitcoin Cash to my Bitcoin wallet? Should I send my Bitcoins to a new Blockchain.info wallet to keep them safe while I get the Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin cash is a cryptocurrency like bitcoin, but it exists on its own separate network. So moving the bch coins will not affect your btc balance, but there are some safety considerations. If Blockchain.info has an option to 'withdraw bch' now, then you can easily send your bch to an exchange like Shapeshift, and change them into btc.

If there is not an easy 'withdraw' option, then you will need to:

• move your btc to a new wallet first
• get your recovery seed phrase from the blockchain.info wallet
• install some bch wallet software, and input your seed phrase into it
• this will generate the bch wallet that holds your funds, you can now send them to an exchange, or whatever

If you search, there are some comprehensive guides available with more info on splitting your bch.

How to Claim Your Bitcoin Cash and Sell it for Bitcoin (TREZOR, Ledger, Electrum)

Last updated on January 2nd, 2018 at 12:00 am

Warning: this guide reveals the exact method the author used to claim free Bitcoin CasH and exchange it for Bitcoin on the 2nd of August. While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure complete and accurate information, the author can’t guarantee a successful outcome for those following this method.

Waiting for better documented methods and more familiar exchanges to offer BCH deposits is the safer play in this situation. However, as more people figure out how to sell their coins, profitability may well decrease.

Bitcoin Cash – The Beginning

Bitcoin Cash (aka Bcash, BCH or BCC) forked off from Bitcoin on the 1st of August and its launch has proven rather rocky. Three days later, only 2 exchanges are supporting Bcash deposits – and its price has crashed on both.

It still takes relatively a lot of time to get Bcash transactions into the blockchain and that’s due to the high difficulty of mining. Bcash forked with the same mining difficulty as Bitcoin but only a small fraction (around 5%) of its hashrate. Bcash’s first (or genesis block) took around 7 hours to be found.

The difficulty adjustment process was meant to compensate for this, reducing difficulty to a level more appropriate for Bcash’s low hashrate within a few blocks. However, miners from “ Genesis Block, ” an aptly named, high-tech hostel in Hong Kong, apparently began mining Bcash for fun and marketing purposes.

The hostel’s additional, unexpected hashpower greatly delayed Bcash’s difficulty adjustment process. As a result, Bcash blocks remain slow, although difficulty has since adjusted to about ¼ of Bitcoin’s. You can use this Bitcoin Cash block explorer to see the status of the current blocks (take a look at the bottom).

Free Bitcoin Cash for Bitcoiners

If you held any bitcoin in a personal wallet (or on certain exchange wallets listed here) then congrats, you own an equal amount of Bcash too!

If you wish to sell your Bcash, there are 2 things you need to do, in the following order:

1) Split you Bitcoin into Bitcoin Cash

If your BTC was held on one of the exchanges listed, the exchange will have taken care of this process for you. When you log in, you should see a BCH (or possibly, “BCC”) balance in a new exchange wallet, in addition to your regular BTC wallet. The amounts in both wallets should match, assuming you haven’t made any recent trades or transactions.

If your bitcoins were held in a personal wallet, you’ll have to split them yourself. We cover splitting for Ledger, TREZOR and for the Electrum software wallet. Note that the general procedure used for Electrum is applicable to other software wallets, although the precise steps will vary.

2) Sell your Bitcoin Cash on an exchange

For those whose bitcoins were held on an exchange which split BCH from BTC and offers a market in BCH trading, you’re already done – sell your BCH whenever you feel like it.

Everyone else will have to decide between the three exchanges currently accepting BCH deposits; HitBTC, ViaBTC and Bittrex. I used HitBTC for two good reasons:

1. HitBTC requires only 2 confirmations before deposited BCH are credited to your account and made available for trading purposes. As Bcash blocks are still very slow (up to 8 hours delay), this could be a real time saver. By contrast, it appears other exchanges requires 20 confirmations before approving any withdrawals.
2. HitBTC offers a quick and easy registration, which requires only an email address to complete.

Keep in mind that because HitBTC is one of the only exchanges allowing to actually deposit BCH many people are selling it on the platform which causes the exchange rate to be lower than on other platforms.

Before going any further make sure you have a backup of your wallet at hand. Using any of these methods without a back could result in total loss of your coins. DO NOT CONTINUE WITHOUT A BACKUP!

Splitting your Bitcoins in a Ledger Nano S

Splitting with ledger is a fairly simple process but not an intuitive one, make sure to follow these exact steps:

Step 1 – Back up your Ledger wallet

Throughout the process you will need to update your firmware, this will wipe all of the data from your device. Make sure to have a back up before moving forward or you will lose all of your coins.

Step 2 – Update your Ledger Firmware

Download the Ledger Manager for chrome, go to “Firmwares” on the left hand side and click on “Install”. You will then be prompted to confirm this action on your device. Once the update is complete you will need to import your wallet from your seed phrase. The complete steps to this process can be found here.

Once you have a firmware version that is 1.3.1 and above, you can move on to step 3.

Step 3 – Download the Bitcoin Cash App

Inside the Ledger Manager, go to “application” and download the Bitcoin Cash app (2nd from the top).

Step 4 – Create a separate Bitcoin Cash wallet on your Ledger

If you had Bitcoins before the fork, Ledger now splits those Bitcoins into BTC and BCH but keeps them on the same wallet. It’s recommended to use a separate (aka split) wallet to manage your BCH. This step isn’t mandatory but is advised. If you wish to skip this step move straight to step 6.

Connect your ledger and select “Bitcoin Cash” from the available options on the device. The following screen will open:

Select “Bitcoin Cash”. The following screen will ask if you want to access the main wallet (BTC and BCH combined) or the split wallet (Only BCH). Select “split”.

Go to “receive” and generate a BCH address. You will later send your Main wallet’s BCH to this address. Once you have your BCH address move to step 5.

Step 5 – Send your BCH from your main wallet to your split wallet

Go to “settings” – “Blockchains” and this time choose “Bitcoin Cash” and “Main”.

This wallet holds your newly formed BCH along with your BTC. It’s now time to send them to your split wallet.

Go to “send” and send your BCH to your split wallet address which you’ve retrieved on step 4.

Step 6 – Send your BCH to an exchange

You can now go to “Settings” – “Blockchains” and log back into your split wallet. You will need to wait for a new BCH block to be mined until you can see that your transaction is confirmed. Once it’s confirmed you can send your BCH into an exchange or hold on to them.

For the official ledger guide click here.

Splitting your Bitcoins in TREZOR

Due to only having a week to prepare for the launch of the final version of Bcash code, Trezor’s wallet does not currently support BCH (although they’re working on a fix). It is however possible to use an online tool by TREZOR in order to split your BCH and simultaneously send it to a BCH address.

Thoroughly review Trezor’s guide to this process and check their Twitter and subreddit for any updates. Sometimes the tool is offline and recently some bugs were found in it.

Step 1 – Visit the beta version of Trezor wallet. You should use Google Chrome to access the wallet; the author was unable to complete the process using Firefox or a clean install thereof.

Make sure that you’re on the beta site: https://beta-wallet.trezor.io

The reason for visiting the beta Trezor wallet is that it enables you to update your Trezor’s firmware to the latest, beta version (1.5.1). Particularly if you haven’t performed this process before, you should study Trezor’s guide to firmware updates.

Step 2 – Be certain you have a backup of your seed phrase and update your firmware. This is done as follows:

• disconnect the device
• plug it in while holding both device buttons pressed

Step 3 – Go to the Coin Splitting Tool. Click on “Connect with TREZOR”. Reconnect your device and enter the PIN as usual.

Step 4 – Select the account you want to split BCH from and enter an address to send the BCH to. It is possible to enter the exchange funding address directly in this stage (see below how to get a deposit address for HitBTC).

Splitting your Bitcoins in Electrum

If you have an Electrum Bitcoin wallet, we suggest you follow this excellent guide put together by the Electrum developers. In case that any of this doesn’t make complete sense to you, please don’t use this method it’s pretty risky.

Here’s a TL;DR version of it:

Step 1 – Write down all of your Bitcoin addresses that had Bitcoins in them during the fork.

Step 2 – Go to Wallet – Private Keys – Export and write down only the keys that are related to the addresses you’ve found in step 1.

Step 3 – Move all of your Bitcoins to a new Electrum wallet (create a new wallet through file – new/restore). You’re doing this so that if any of the private keys you exported are compromised in some way, your Bitcoins will be in a new address with a different private key.

Step 4 – ON A DIFFERENT COMPUTER install the Electron Cash wallet. Here’s the reason why it needs to be on a different machine:

Step 5 – Import your private keys into Electron Cash. Once done you can use your new coins via that wallet.

Splitting your coins in Exodus

The following process was supplied by one of our users and not tested by us. Use it with caution. In any case of uncertainly please contact Exodus support (they are VERY helpful and fast to respond):

Step 1 – download the latest version of the Exodus desktop wallet from the Exodus website.
Step 2 – Create your account on Hitbtc as already stated in the article and get your BCC address.
Step 3– Install the Exodus wallet and click on “Help” menu on the left panel. Scroll down to the menu items on the right and click on the menu called “How do I claim my bitcoin cash (BCH)”.
Step 4 – Keep your BCC address (that you got from Hitbtc) handy and follow the instructions. It will calculate the amount of BTC that was in the Exodus wallet before 1st August 2017 and ask you the BCC address where you want to transfer the BCC.
Step 5 – Enter the BCC address and transfer. It might take 2-4hrs for the transfer to take place.

To convert the BCC to BTC and transfer it back to your Exodus wallet and continue following this article.

Splitting in Blockchain.info and Other Software Wallets

Update: around October 2017 Blockchain.info will add Bitcoin Cash support and you will automatically be able to see your Bitcoin Cash balance. More info can be found here.

On old Blockchain.info wallets Login and then go to Settings > Addresses on the left.

Then find your address that has your BTC balance (which held BTC at the time of the 8/1 fork) and click on More Options, then Private Keys. After that just follow the same sequence as in the Electrum guide.

In the new version of Blockchain.info you should go to security – wallet recovery phrase and write down your 12 word seed. After that just follow the same sequence as in the Electrum guide.

Here’s a great video about Getting you BCH from software wallets:

The order of sequence laid out in the Electrum guide will be safe for any software wallet, as far as we know. The major point to keep in mind is that you must generate a new wallet (not just a new address), send your bitcoins to the new wallet, and only then is it safe to export the private key of your old wallet into your Bcash wallet. If you’re unsure how to accomplish any of these steps, it’s best to wait for a detailed guide for your specific wallet.

Selling your coins on HitBTC

HitBTC is a European exchange (apparently headquartered in Hong Kong) which has been operational since 2013. They don’t seem to have experienced any major hacks or other negative events in that time, which is good going by crypto exchange standards.

Here are the steps for exchange BCH on HitBTC

Step 1 – sign up for an account

Step 2 – Sign in and navigate to your Bcash wallet by selecting the “Account”.

scroll down to “BCC” in the list of coins and click the “Fund” button (circle with +). Your BCC deposit address will now be generated and displayed. Note that BCC addresses look just like Bitcoin address, so be very careful that you don’t confuse the two!

Step 3 – Send the BCC from your wallet into your HitBTC BCC account.

Step 4 – Wait for at least 2 blocks to be mined on the Bcash network.

Step 5 – Move your coins into your trading account. Click the rightwards facing arrow icon, then on the expanded bar, input or verify the amount to transfer. Finally, click transfer.

Step 6 – Select the “Exchange” tab at the top left and select the currency you wish to sell your BCH for. Make the exchange. The simplest way to sell is via a market order. This will sell as many BCH as you specify at the best available price(s).

There are other types of orders which may allow you to get a better price for your BCH. Check out Limit orders too, which allow you to place a sell order for your chosen amount of BCH into the order book at a specific price. This allows you to wait for the market to meet your price, although be aware that if your price is too high the coins may never sell. In this case, you will have to cancel your active order and place a new one at a lower price level.

Step 8 – Withdraw your bitcoins, or other currency. Return to the “Account” tab, then transfer your BTC (or whichever currency you sold for) from your trading to your deposit / withdrawal account.

The withdraw dialog will then require your Bitcoin address. Ensure that you paste a Bitcoin address from a Bitcoin wallet under your control, not the Bcash address you used to deposit funds initially!

Congratulations, you’ve just increased your bitcoin holdings with almost no work! HitBTC sends out withdrawals almost immediately so you should soon be able to see your unconfirmed transaction in any block explorer.

Should I Sell or Hold?

Of course, you’re not forced to sell your BCH. You may wish to hold it, perhaps because you believe in the coin’s long term prospects or think patience will be rewarded with a better price.

Bcash is currently trading above $300 on most exchanges, which in this author’s opinion is high for an altcoin with no established economy, unknown developers, vulnerably low hashrate and no real technical innovations.

Rhetoric aside, Bcash offers no tangible advantages over Bitcoin. The codebase has been gutted of major Bitcoin protocol upgrades, such as SegWit and Replace By Fee.

Bcash addresses scaling by the relatively crude means of multiplying its maximum block size from 1 to 8 megabytes. This has the consequence of increasing operational demands across all nodes; likely increasing miner centralisation.

A Tip for Selling – Blocks and Drops

Each new block transmits coins onto exchanges, releasing pent-up selling pressure. Given the limited liquidity of these exchanges, the result is a steep drop as many coins are sold simultaneously. This pattern may be clearly seen in the following chart:

BCH/BTC 1 minute chart with recent blocks demarcated.
Notice that price drops coincide with volume spikes.

Waiting for a block can be a tedious process. Currently, the best way to monitor Bcash blocks in real-time is via this block explorer. Bcash blocks currently take around 2 hours to find (but may take much longer).

Who supports Bitcoin Cash (the complete list)

Last updated on February 22nd, 2018 at 12:21 pm

On Tuesday, August 1st at 4 AM (UTC), what many are describing as an altcoin will fork off from the main Bitcoin network. August 1st is also the scheduled activation of BIP 148, also known as the User Activated Soft Fork (UASF).

The new, forking coin, Bitcoin Cash, will launch as a so-called User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) – in reality; a Miner Activated Hard Fork. All Bitcoin (BTC) holders will receive an amount in Bitcoin cash equivalent their Bitcoin holdings.

Note: If you find yourself confused by all this “fork talk,” check out this article on the subject or Andreas Antonopolous’ excellent “Forkology” presentation).

A Brief Guide to Bitcoin Cash

Major Chinese ASIC manufacturer and mining pool operator, Bitmain, planned and coded a response to the possibility of a UASF-induced fork. This code, originally termed Bitcoin ABC and now known as Bitcoin Cash (ticker symbol BCC or BCH ), will fork to a version of Bitcoin without SegWit but with an 8x larger blocksize.

Currently, Bitcoin Cash is estimated to have the support of just 0.26% of total Bitcoin mining hashrate and its price on the ViaBTC futures market is approximately 12% of Bitcoin’s. How these figures will develop after the fork occurs is a highly speculative matter.

Daily chart of Bitcoin Cash futures price on ViaBTC; currently the only available market. The present exchange rate of CNY to USD is 0.14.

The consensus appears to be that Bitcoin Cash will fail to gain meaningful traction. Without massive financial support, BCH will likely trade in a 3 (or even 2) digit range shortly after launch, as Bitcoin holders will sell it in masses for Bitcoin or fiat.

How Exchanges will Manage the Bitcoin Cash Fork

If your bitcoins are safely held in your personal Bitcoin wallet, your BTC balance will be credited and matched on the BCH chain. Splitting the coins then becomes your responsibility, should you wish to trade one side or the other.

Make sure to do your research thoroughly before attempting to split your coins; it’s a fairly complex and technical process. After the fork occurs, monitor the Bitcoin Cash price so judge the potential gain against the possible risk, plus the time and effort required.

Warning: Beware of services offering to split your coins for you! Unless verified as part of a trusted exchange, wallet or similar Bitcoin company, such offers could well be coin-stealing scams!

If your bitcoins are stored on an exchange (which is not recommended for security reasons), the relevant custodian will decide the fate of your BCH. In several cases, you won’t receive any BCH.

The following table lays out the stated positions of Bitcoin exchanges and wallets regarding this matter:

How Wallets will Manage the Bitcoin Cash Fork

Provided your bitcoins are safely held in a personal wallet, you can’t lose your cashcoins. However, there is a slight possibility that malicious miners might steal your cashcoins when you make bitcoin transactions. To avoid this risk, you may wish to split the coins into specific Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash wallets.

Certain wallets will or have released specific updates, services and tutorials for splitting your coins. If your wallet does not support such a feature, you may consider temporarily or permanently moving your coins to a supporting wallet. As always, exercise great care when moving significant values.

As Bitcoin Cash wallets require access to your Bitcoin wallet’s private key and password in order to claim cashcoins, you should exercise extreme caution when downloading any Cash wallet. It would be far safer to move your bitcoins to a new wallet with a new privkey and password after the fork occurs. Only once your bitcoins are in a new wallet should you enter your privkey / password into any Bitcoin Cash wallet. This avoids the risk of privkey / password leaks via potential malware.

Bitcoin Core (aka Bitcoin QT)

Warning: installing Cash on the same machine as Core is dangerous. Using default installation options, Cash will overwrite and corrupt Bitcoin Core data – potentially wiping your real bitcoin balance! Learn about the Bitcoin data directory and back it up – especially of your wallet.dat file! – before installing Cash.

Bitcoin Core will not support Bitcoin Cash in any way.

While the latest version of Electrum, 2.9, is capable of distinguishing between competing chains, Electrum does not officially support Bitcoin Cash. Indeed, they consider the “Electrum Cash” fork of their software to be a trademark infringement.

The combined wallet and exchange service, Exodus, will not support Bitcoin Cash, either through splitting or providing a market.

The popular Trezor hardware wallet will support Bitcoin Cash. Trezor’s web interface will feature a tool for safely splitting your coins. Consult Trezor’s official statement for further information

The popular Ledger hardware wallet will also support Bitcoin Cash. Their Chrome wallet interface will also feature a split utility and a selector for both chains. Consult their official statement for details.

Since Jaxx users are always in control of their private keys, corresponding Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be safe in your Jaxx wallet. However, please know that you will not be able to access/send/receive your Bitcoin Cash (BCH) until the integration takes place.

Blockchain.info

If you have a Blockchain wallet, it is essential that you retain your wallet and corresponding recovery phrase and not delete them, even if you empty the BTC balance. Also if you are considering withdrawing funds from exchanges that will not support BCC, it is safe to withdraw to your Blockchain wallet.

In the event of two separate blockchains after August 1, 2017 Blockchain.info will support the longest chain. As of today, Blockahin.info has no immediate plans to fully support the Bitcoin Cash fork within our main product. But, if BCC develops into an actual chain and market, you will be able to use your recovery phrase to export your funds and use them on that chain, regardless of whether or not Blockchain chooses to support it.

KeepKey plans to support all forks of bitcoin as unique currencies and will allow you to swap between them with ShapeShift.

Copay has no immediate plans to support BCC. Since these apps are true bitcoin wallets, users hold the private keys and have full, exclusive access to their funds. While users will not be able to observe a BCC balance or create BCC transactions at this time, it is possible to access BCC at a later date with additional software.

If the fork is successful you will automatically have the equivalent amount of BCC as the amount of BTC stored in your BTC.com wallet.

When in doubt visit BitcoinCash.org to see if your exchange or wallet is supported.

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Blockchain.info Wallet Users Get Access to Bitcoin Cash

Blockchain.com recently announced that they have now added support for Bitcoin Cash on the popular Blockchain.info wallet.

According to the update, users who had Bitcoins in their Blockchain.info wallets on August 1 st , 2017, will now be able to access the same amount of Bitcoin Cash as well:

“Since the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork activated on August 1st, we’ve continued to monitor this emerging digital asset and confirmed in a brief update our decision to roll out limited support, in line with our users’ requests, within approximately 8 weeks.

We’re excited to share that, as of today, any user who had a Bitcoin balance in their Blockchain wallet when the fork activated, will be able to access the same amount in BCH.

Users can now store, exchange, and send Bitcoin Cash by clicking on General in the Settings menu of their web wallet. In the future, we may offer expanded support.”

Bitcoin Cash is basically a clone of the original Bitcoin chain with a higher block size capacity, and is the result of the August 1 st hard-fork. Users who had Bitcoin in their wallets on that day also got an equal amount of Bitcoin Cash.

The Blockchain.info service is among the oldest, created in August 2011, and provides around 17.5 million users a web-wallet service for Bitcoin. Web wallets are preferred by users because they do not require technical know-how or the need to set up a client on your computer and sync it with the complete blockchain.

While the service only supported Bitcoin for 6 years, it also added support for Ethereum in August this year – a feature that users regularly requested.

Just recently, the Blockchain service also raised $40 Million in funding for expansion and digital asset R&D, a development, which according to a board member, Jeremy Liew, is going to put the service at the fore-front of the blockchain revolution:

“Blockchain was one of the first digital currency wallets, quickly grew to market leadership, and has only extended its lead since then. Now that bitcoin and Blockchain have started to get broader traction, they are the best positioned to become the mainstream leaders.”

Interestingly, today we also saw Bitcoin breaking the $5,000 barrier and it seems like it is geared up to reach higher limits, trading currently at over $5,200. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Cash is currently trading at $324.55.

Blockchain.info Web Wallet Adds Bitcoin Cash with Full Functionality

One of the oldest Bitcoin web wallets, Blockchain.info, has officially added full support for Bitcoin Cash, after supporting Ether earlier this year.

Blockchain.info, one of the oldest and most popular Bitcoin wallets, has now officially added Bitcoin Cash with “full functionality” for users of their web version.

Their official announcement post cited the ‘growing demand’ for Bitcoin Cash and the project’s aim to empower their users as the reason behind the new addition:

“At Blockchain, we’re always looking for ways to empower our users to interact with the digital economy in new, meaningful ways.”

We also fired up the wallet’s web version to verify, and found Bitcoin Cash listed along with Bitcoin and Ether (which was added in August this year). We had also been credited with Bitcoin Cash corresponding with the amount of Bitcoin held in the wallet on August 1, 2017.

Bitcoin Cash, which is a fork of Bitcoin, with a higher block size and consequently lower fees and faster transactions, is considered by its community to be the ‘real Bitcoin’, as envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto, and laid out in his 2008 whitepaper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

However, proponents of the original Bitcoin accuse Bitcoin Cash and Roger Ver, its vocal advocate, of using Bitcoin’s name and brand to boost their ‘alt coin’. That being said, Bitcoin Cash (BCC/BCH) is currently ranked fourth, with a market cap of $29 billion, and is trading over $1,700.

While it may not be as valuable as Bitcoin, it has significant capital backing it up, and Roger Ver recently announced an upcoming Visa debit card for Bitcoin Cash, which may lead to a further surge in its value.