Hi!
So I made a thread called ELI5, how do I claim my BCH if I had BTC during the hard fork? and got some help in that thread, but I dont feel fully confident yet.
So this is my situation:
Ive had BTC in my armory wallet for a couple of years.
I sold some BTC post fork but didnt even know about the fork until recently.
Im a complete newbie and only know how to send BTC using Armory, I dont know anything about signers etc.
If I understand it correctly I have some BCH that I can claim (the same amount of BCH that I had BTC during the fork). Ive read the entire thread (keep in mind that Im a noob and probably only understood about 5% of what was written) and it looks like I can install Armory on an external HDD (dont have enough space on my laptop to have another approx 150 GB for the blockchain) and delete some blocks (until about the date at the fork?) and somehow I will see the amount of BTC i had during that time? (which is exactly the same amount of BCH I had at that time). I can then send those BCH to another wallet by checking the box BCH signer?
If I do something wrong (like forgetting to check the BCH signer) I might lose my regular BTC? Do you recommend me making another wallet and send all my BTC to that wallet first? Can I somehow make a mistake and leak my private keys and therefore basically lose my BTC? (someone commented Do not expose your private keys. and I have no idea what I can or cant do to expose them)
All I want to do is to move some of my BCH to a safe place and some of my BCH to an exchange and trade in for BTC and some altcoins.
Is there any possibility at all that if I wait to much, I might lose my BCH (If BCH converts to other addresses or something like that). Keep in mind that Im a complete noob 😊
I guess I first also have to update my Armory version since I right now have 0.95.1? Where can I update armory? Do I need to uninstall the version I have now before updating?