Quote from: JaredStein on November 22, 2017, 06:00:39 PM

Quote from: Aura on November 22, 2017, 05:12:49 PM

Quote from: smokeydog on November 20, 2017, 09:22:42 PM

Quote from: Aura on November 20, 2017, 06:03:56 PM

Every address that has a balance in BTC before the fork will receive an equal amount of the (forked coin) in this case BTG. The BTC private key has the same amount in different units on a different chain. To redeem the forked coin you should import your private key to a supported BTG wallet. From there you can claim your BTG and make a transaction to an exchange address. But keep in mind that Coinbase doesn't show your private key, so you won't be able the forked coin till Coinbase decides to support this chain.

Thanks, I really don't like they way all these wallets handle private keys. It's just a string of numbers, we should have the option of dumping the raw numbers to a backup. I hate the way trezor makes me play games with all these seed words. Just give me the number.

You're welcome, I don't own a Trezor but most wallets save all the data in a wallet.dat file which you can backup.

Quote from: smokeydog on November 22, 2017, 12:06:59 AM

Quote from: Aura on November 20, 2017, 06:03:56 PM

Every address that has a balance in BTC before the fork will receive an equal amount of the (forked coin) in this case BTG. The BTC private key has the same amount in different units on a different chain. To redeem the forked coin you should import your private key to a supported BTG wallet. From there you can claim your BTG and make a transaction to an exchange address. But keep in mind that Coinbase doesn't show your private key, so you won't be able the forked coin till Coinbase decides to support this chain.

If I send my bitcoins from coinbase to my trezor wallet, can I do the same or does the key change. I know how public/private key pair encryption works but, I still don't completely understand the mechanics of how the block chain uses the keys. If I send to my trezor wallet, will that private key have the ability to get to my BTG on a different wallet? If my bit coins are sent to someone else, will that person be able to get to the bitcoin gold if I have not done anything before the send? If I just ignore all this and then send my bitcoins does the new owner have the ability to get to the bitcoin gold. Seems like a lot of overhead and coinbase should do something to cover this for their customers.

If you send your Bitcoins to your trezor wallet, then the private key of your Trezor belongs to that amount of Bitcoin. The fork already happend, so the forked coins can't get transferred along with your BTC to a trezor wallet address. Let me simplify the process of a fork to you. The fork developers create a snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain, this then splits at the time of the fork. That means that one Bitcoin you own before the fork will correspond to one forked coin after the fork, on the same address. So you're Coinbase BTG is not claimable till they give support for that particular chain. But other people won't be able to claim your forked coins when you do a transaction after the fork. It's stored on the address you had them on before the fork and will be there till you do a transaction with the forked coins.

Why did you get into it in the first place if you are having to ask questions on how to sell it. You should already know? Or is it too hard because exchanges and wallets don't want to build services around shitcoins? You should've thought of all of this before you went and sold the only thing you'll ever have that will be valuable in your life and that's BTC. Shake my head...

What are you talking about? He never mentioned that he sold his BTC neither did I. He just wanted to know how he could claim his fork coins and sell them off, that's his choice.