Quote from: Vixmore on July 18, 2017, 09:35:18 PM

Quote from: mjkforum on July 17, 2017, 07:56:14 PM

Ok so here's the thing

I have a few bitcoins on btce.com and a few on a [Suspicious link removed] wallet and I've noticed the price dropped really fast the last week.
Me being a newbie and didn't quite know what was going on read something about segwit and hardfork
I learned that it would be wise not to leave the bitcoins on btce but store them somewhere else.
Is blockchain a good wallet to store the coins in during the hardfork? Or should I get another wallet?
When the coin splits I obviously want to end up with both the old an the new coin of course.

Or does someone maybe have a better idea what I should do with them?

It's not a whole lot in total, it's about 0.15 BTC or so

Yes, this is correct. Segwit2x will be implemented to the blockchain on August 1 and this (may) cause a hard fork to happen. The best method to secure yourself from this is to buy up a hardware wallet and store your Bitcoins on that along with the private key being next to you and only accessible by you.

Buying hardware wallet would really be more costly for him seeing on his bitcoin possession it wont really be worth it just to buy that hardware for little amounts. I think it would be safer if he would use desktop wallet which you can still have the access on your private key and incase if theres a split or none atleast you do have your bitcoin and if it would need some update then its the best thing on always follow the instruction on which veteran members here saying.