Quote from: eb9109 on October 29, 2017, 11:06:58 PM

Ok yes, thanks Cellard and jackg, I think I understand it...what you described is helpfull as I only need 2 versions of the blockchain to achieve it.....and is otherwise what I was thinking.

The fact I cannot use my original address afterwards I find slightly worrying as I use it in so many sites....but hopefully they can update address and all then use my new btc address.... hopefully

So if I wait until after the Btcx2 fork, do I `dig` each new forks currency from the same original bitcoin address? Or does the new currency value follow where the original bitcoin balance is .... for example:

... if I use btc address 1, send it to btc address 2, then `dig` btc address 1 for BCC from BCC blockchain(as described)....when I then do the same to BTG would I `dig` from Btc address 1? As I`m thinking that the fork will hold value that was present at the time of the fork...in your explanation we move my balance of Btc to my fresh address, which shows that the balance is held on the blockchain at the time of the fork and doesn`t necessarily follow the actual balance...unless as you warned someone were to `dig` btc address 2 before I had `dug` Btc address 1.

Thanks for understanding my caution.

Yes, another reason hardforks are a pain in the ass is that since you have to move around your cold storage into new addresses, if you have receiving addresses that other people have to send you period payments, you will need to tell them to update to a new address in the wallet you are using. For example, everyone in signature campaigns will need to tell managers to change their addresses after the fork if you want to access the coins on the other chain (because you will need to move all of your BTC to new BTC addresses before doing so)

You will receive whatever BTC you have in a particular address at the time of the fork.

BTCAddress1 has 0.24 BTC

B2XAddress1 has 0.24 BTC

Both are the same address, but BTC means BTC chain, B2X means segwit2x chain.

The point of moving BTCAddress1 into a new BTCAddress2 is to avoid replay attack due matching addresses on both chains. Just do this before anything else and you will be OK.