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Re: How to spend Bitcoin Cash without the corresponding transaction being mirrored?
by
Beetkoin
on 01/11/2021, 16:03:21 UTC
what is to prevent someone from stealing his coins on BCH?

All the proper tutorials about claiming fork coins tell this:
before claiming the fork coin - no matter if it means to send the fork coins to an exchange or other operations - the very first step is to move your bitcoin into a new safe wallet.
This is necessary not only because of mirroring tx. This is also necessary because the fork coin wallet may be malicious, for example.

But when I move my BTC to a safe wallet, someone is going to mirror that transaction on Bitcoin Cash?
So isn't it an endless game of cat and mouse?

If I move my BTC to a SegWit address, then on BCH it will appear as a "anyone can spend" UTXO therefore immediately stolen?