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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Confused about splitting coins and where to store safely.
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jellyjam17
on 01/11/2017, 16:57:43 UTC
I am a little confused with this whole process and what to and not to do. I have a ledger nano s wallet that has two sub wallets with two different pass phrases.
1  of these wallets has bitcoins that have been split after bitcoin cash that were sent there after recovering them from  a paper wallet seed. The coins that are bitcoin cash from that split are still in the paper wallet, I think i need to sweep that wallet by typing the seed into some software that supports bitcoin cash and then send them to one of my ledger addresses. The other wallet on the ledger has coins bought only before bitcoin gold split but after bitcoin cash split. I currently have another group of coins that is a jumble of pre and post bitcoin gold split on an exchange which hasn't recognized my bitcoin gold yet. I want to send these exchange coins to my wallet with just bitcoin that has already been split. Is this ok or will it cause problems?

 If i send bitcoins that have and haven't been split along various stages along all the forks to the same wallet, will that screw me and prevent me from splitting the ones that can be split but have not yet? Optimally I would split them as I go but that unfortunately that has not happened perfectly. I just dont understand how the software splits coins in the wallet and what happens if only some coins can be spit. I done fully understand replay protection but i know it can cause problems if you are careless with where you send coins!

Thanks for any help.
Sorry if this is in wrong area, I am new here but can repost somewhere else if necessary.