How to claim your Bitcoin Cash.
If you had Bitcoins stored on the 1st of April 2017 you can access your Bitcoin Cash.
Bitcoin Cash is the result of a blockchain fork that happened on 1st of April, on this date, because the blockchain was doubled, Bitcoin cash(BCH) was created.
If you had X amount of Bitcoins by then, now you also had X amount of Bitcoins Cash.
In this guide I explain how you can claim them and sell them in an exchange.
Before you continue, you must know that for this to work you need access to your private keys (see: My first wallet).
Step one: Access the Wallet containing the Bitcoins at the date of 1st August and transfer all your funds to another Wallet, this step is for organisation and security reasons.
Step two: Get access to your private keys and export them.
Step three: Download Electroncash Wallet, please check the checksum hashes before using it, like explained in their website. This step is done to make sure that the program is not compromised.
Install the program once the checksum comes legit.
Step four: Import your private keys into Electroncash, after this you should be able to see the available amount of BCH that you have, that should be the same amount of BTC that you had on the 1st of August.
Step five: Now you can send the BCH into any Exchange like Bitfinex (see: Investing Cryptocurrency for beginners) and easily sell them for BTC.
Step six: Send your BTC out of the exchange into the Wallet you sent your initial BTC and rejoice with the new members of the family:)
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