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Board Altcoin Discussion
Claiming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from Electrum wallet using one machine only
by
alifrenstein
on 02/08/2017, 14:14:13 UTC
Hello friends! I need your help.

I have a lot of BTC in my Electrum wallet, and I want to get my BCC, but the problem is that I only have one machine.

Therefore, I am very afraid to take any risk because I read these instructions in the Electrum site:

 1. Install Electron Cash on a machine that does not have your
 Electrum wallets.

 2. Wait until the BCC hard fork has taken place, and a few BCC blocks
 have been mined.

 3. Move all your Electrum funds to a new Electrum wallet. This will
 move only your BTC, and not your BCC, because the BCC blockchain has
 replay protection. Wait until the transaction is confirmed.

 4. Enter the seed of your (now empty) old wallet or private keys in
 Electron Cash. Since the BTC have been moved to a new wallet,
 entering your old seed in Electron Cash will not put your BTC funds
 at risk.


I wanted to ask, if I install VMware Workstation in my PC and create a virtual machine and use it for Electron Cash, is there still a risk?