On 08/18/2017 03:55 AM, Steven Schear wrote: > Right, as long as you either exported your Bitcoin to your own wallet or > your Bitcoin was deposited in an exchange that assured its customers that > they would not claim the BCC themselves but hold it for users, then you are > fine. If, OTOH, your Bitcoin was deposited in an exchange that alerted its > users to withdraw their Bitcoin to their own wallets of they wanted it, and > you did not withdraw in before the fork then you are probably SoL.
Right. I neglected to mention that I use Electrum wallets. To use BCH, I'll need to get a suitable wallet, and import the keys. The BCH price crashed before I got around to it. I guess that I'll do it soon :) > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> On 08/18/2017 03:29 AM, Steven Schear wrote: >> >> <SNIP> >> >>> Due to the economic and technical nature of Bitcoin and its blockchain >> its >>> more than possible that the new fork, widely being called Bitcoin Cash, >> BCH >>> or BCC, will overtake its rival fork now commonly called Bitcoin Core. >> The >>> effect of this "flippening" could be nothing short of disastrous for >> those >>> holding Bitcoin Core. >>> >>> Since the recent Bitcoin hard fork we now have two Bitcoins: Core (the >>> original) and Cash. When the fork happened those holding BTC (in their >> own >>> wallets) were also able to claim an equal amount of BCC (for free). >> >> There's no need to claim BCH. It's there, and will be there until spent. >> Me, I won't until the price goes up. It's "flippening" insurance. >> >> <SNIP> >> > > >