Quote from: DooMAD on March 22, 2017, 07:39:32 PM

HostFat has a work-in-progress guide here to be absolutely sure you're ready for any outcome and also have the ability to choose your desired chain if you happen to disagree with the longest one.

According to that site, you have nothing to worry about...see the quote from the OP of that "work-in process" guide bolded and underlined in red below:

And, to my previous point, this guy says there isn't any guarantee that any exchange will allow you both currency options post-Fork (totally agree).

Quote from: HostFat on October 13, 2016, 03:03:25 AM

This chain will have "the same" (equal) history until that point / moment.

As you know, or you should know, on the Bitcoin's Blockchain they are saved all the transactions, from the 2009 to day.

If there will be a fork at the block X (like the block 453758, to make an example), so the Bitcoin's history, of the new fork, it will be "equal" until that point. (block)

What does this mean? It means that if before the block X, you had 100 bitcoin, then after it you will have 100 bitcoin on the "old" blockchain, and 100 bitcoinX (just to give a fancy name) on the new Blockchain.

The value of the two currencies will be different. They will be two different currencies after this.

The good thing about this, is that, as investors/holders, without doing likely nothing, You will be invested in the same way (same amount) on both.
I repeat, if you had an amount of bitcoin until now, then you will have it even after, on both blockchains.

You will be able then to decide to sell a little on one side, or the other, or keep them still and wait longer term.
The safest thing we say, would be doing nothing, and see how the market (other users / buyers / seller more confident of their choices) will decide to do, Following the exchanges in the various markets.

Any fork will be reported by me or by others, possibly months in advance.
On the forum, on facebook and on chats.

If you will do nothing and you will find yourself on clients / exchange / inappropriate situations to have both tokens (Bitcoin and BitcoinX), what will happen is that you simply will have the bitcoin, only on the current chain, meaning, the chain of the current team that is working on Bitcoin Core.

The choice to stay on the various fork, and not on a single one, may be here because:
- You don't trust of the curreny team on Bitcoin Core, and of the future that they are proposing.
- You trust them, but why avoiding the possibility to have more coins that can be sold (and gaining something) when it is possible?
- You trust them, but not entirely, better to be safe, because it costs so little (the time to adjust your situation)

However! (important things)

- Having control on your own bitcoins, it means having the complete/total and absolute control of private keys. I mean all the private keys, as single or more (client multisig)
It a very imortant thing, you have to be sure to have complete control of your bitcoins, to be sure, with certainty, to being able to use/have/control them, even on the new fork.

- Being able to export the private keys
Another thing that it will be needed is that the client that you are using will allow you with certainty, to being able to export the private keys, all of them!
This to being able to, easily, importing these keys on the new clients / wallets that will support the new fork.

It is important that the bitcoins are on an appropriate client, BEFORE the fork.
After the fork, the coins on the current Bitcoin, on the old chain, you will be able to take them on your before prefered client / service (if it wasn't respecting the two rules above)

Below I will put a list of clients that I consider valid to guarantee the ability to have bitcoin also present in the new blockchain.
If there is a client that doesn't appear on the list, just ask, and I will try to add it, by indicating whether it is adequate or not.

Clients / adequate situations / to have, by choice, before the fork (like, 6 or more confirmations/blocks before it happens):
- Electrum
- Jaxx
- Copay (https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39)
- Mycelium (https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 - "Mycelium" )
- Multibit HD (https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 - "Hive Wallet" )
- Breadwallet (https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 - "Hive Wallet" )
- Bitcoin Core - (until the v0.13.0, at the moment) - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/5933/259
- Bitcoin Unlimited - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/5933/259
- Bitcoin Classic - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/5933/259
- Bitcoin XT - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/5933/259
- Paper wallet (single bitcoin address and private key)
- Blockchain.info - However it isn't a recommended wallet (https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39)
- Bitcoin Armory

Not sure, I haven't tested it directly:
- Trezor (https://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-tech/cryptography.html - https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 - https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 )
- Ledger (http://support.ledgerwallet.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-to-restore-my-backup-without-a-ledger-wallet - https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39 / https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 )

To use https://iancoleman.github.io/bip39, it's better to download the source and open it on a secure offline system
https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39/archive/master.zip

Clients / inappropriate situations / to not have if you want to be assured of having the coins on both (or more) forks:
- Leaving your bitcoins on the exchanges: there isn't any certainty that the exchanges will permit you to have the coins on all the blockchains. You will have to withdraw them, and put them on adeguate clients, before the fork.
- Coinbase
- Circle
- Uphold
- All online wallet (that are always insecure)
- ...