If you are sure that the keys are not in use for the main chain, then the easiest is to use Electron cash (or similar).  That means that you won't have to download the entire bitcoin cash chain (as you would with the abc client).

I think Bitcoin.com wallet also protects your keys somehow.

Presumably, you just want to send your coins to an exchange?

If you think you have no malware or keyloggers and that there is no way for your keys to have been harvested... then yes, you could simply import them into an offline wallet to HODL. An even better option would be to simply do nothing at all. You don't need to "claim" BCH, there is no deadline. The coins already exist on the BCH blockchain and can only be moved with your private keys.

Barring a total collapse of BCH, in which case it doesn't matter where or what you did with the coins, "your" BCH are safely linked to your BTC keys and can stay that way until you wish to sell/exchange them etc.

If you just want to be able to "see" your BCH to make yourself feel rich, just create a BCH watching-only wallet using your BTC addresses


No... you have selected the wrong option in the "Install Wizard"... as I said, you need to select "Import Bitcoin Addresses or Private keys"... DO NOT select "Standard Wallet"
https://i.imgur.com/CJjD7pb.png


Select that option, copy/paste the "PlainBase58" private keys when prompted (1 per line):
https://i.imgur.com/oswxW2G.png

Following that, ElectronCash will create the wallet, you'll see your BCH balance... you can then send to an Exchange.

You can either Sweep (which will create an onchain transaction that sends the BCH from the old "btc" addresses to new BCH addresses in your BCH wallet)... or you can Import the keys into a BCH wallet (use the "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys" option when creating the wallet in ElectronCash).

It depends what you want to do... if you want to HODL your BCH, then Sweep is the better option as you're moving the coins from the "exposed" keys. If you're just wanting to dump the BCH... importing the keys and then just sending them to an Exchange is probably "cheaper" and faster (saves paying and waiting for the sweep transaction)

The traffic isn't that high right now. Anything over a dollar in transaction fees will quickly send the Bitcoin. I think I spent under 5$ to send all my Crypto to my hardware wallet. Funds were in hardware wallet withing a minute. 



Looks legit to me but I'm not an expert coder. All you can do is do a search to find any bad sites that are known to have tampered wallets. Generally if you go to a coins official site the wallets are safe.   

Just remember. First move your BTC to the new hardware wallet before exporting the keys. As you get new coins move them to the hardware or other wallets.

Copy your keys to windows notepad and put that in a safe offline place like a thumb drive. Then edit everything out except the used keys. One key stacked above the next. Then you can import them over and over into any coins wallet designed to except keys previously forked from Bitcoin.     

If your goal is to get BCH and BTG, then yes, that method should work.   

Just remember that the original Amory wallet should be considered compromised and no longer used. I'd suggest you keep the wallet backups though, just in case.

Anyway, when you send out the BTC in Step 1, you should either send to an Address in a completely different (new) Armory wallet, or an address in a completely wallet application.

If by "they" you mean the "Electrum" devs... then NO, "they" don't have a BTG tool...

NONE of these Electrum "forks" are the work of, nor are they supported by, the Electrum Dev(s). They're mostly released by the devs (or supporters) of the fork coins. Also, they're prime targets for fake/scam clone wallets designed to steal seeds/keys/coins... Electron Cash had a lot of issues with scam clones to start. Be careful and make sure you're downloading "official" versions of wallets.


Fairly sure that is what I recommended here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2070058.msg35363497#msg35363497

In general, if you have NO interest in continuing to use any given Fork... using a light weight client (ie. some Electrum derivative, or Coinomi etc) is a much easier solution than attempting to get Armory to interface with the forked blockchain.

Granted, you need to make sure that your BTC has been moved first, but that's a relatively straightforward task (create, sign, broadcast transaction)... and generally much easier than attempting to sync a whole new blockchain.

Define "easy" then?

Also, with the Electrum forks you should only need to do the import once. From that point on, you should be able to get away with simply copying the the wallet files and opening the copy in the appropriate fork of Electrum and it should just work.

- Import keys into BTC Electrum (ensure all empty)
- Copy wallet file
- Open in Electron Cash (get BCH)
- Copy original wallet file
- Open in ElectrumG (get BTG)
- Rinse and repeat.

Of course, not all forks have released Electrum forks... but if you want your "free money" you're going to have to work for it


Note that without listen=1, I get the issue (using BitcoinQT) where it will say "node offline" or it will say "connected", but it won't update blocks... If I just use bitcoind, it seems to work OK.

However, for me, having listen=1 will ramp up the bandwidth usage quite dramatically though.

You can read about the various issues I've had with Armory and Win10 here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2783764.msg28460485#msg28460485
and an older (and quite possibly outdated) here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2200306.msg22126330#msg22126330)

(1) First move all BTC coins off of your Armory wallets and Bitcoin Core wallet to a safe place. I'm using a hardware wallet that will hold both BTC, BCH and other altcoins.

(2) Uninstall  Bitcoin Core.

(3) Configure your computer to show hidden files (google methods for your particular computer). Delete all hidden Bitcoin Core hidden files and blockchain. Google or use youtube to find files if you don't know. Your looking for a folder labeled Bitcoin. Delete it.

(4) Install bitcoin-abc-0.16.1 (Bitcoin-qt) for windows https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.16.1/win/

(5) Install and synchronize new ABC (bitcoin-qt). Could take several days. Not easy to find the wallet in the downloaded folders. If you use a zip file you will have to extract the files. "Hint" Open the files with the most data in them.

(6) Open Armory and in "User" tab and set to "expert" in both online and offline wallets.

(7)  Also in Armory go to File/Settings and uncheck the box at the top of the page that says. "Let Armory run Bitcoin Core/bitcoind in the background".

( Shut down Armory and Bitcoin core. Restart computer for the hell of it.  Should Shut down bitcoin-abc？

(9) Open up the new ABC wallet you previously synchronized. Wait until it is synchronized. Leave it on.

(10) Then open up Armory and let it synchronize.

(11)  Go to Help tab in Armory and select "Rebuild and Rescan Data Bases"

(12) You should be able to see the BCH balance in a few hours. To move the BCH you just follow the directions at   "the first post of this thread".    

I've moved all the free BCC in both wallets today. I think this is the easiest way. Especially if you don't understand computer code.

And one more thing when doing an offline transaction. Don't forget to change your offline signing wallet to expert. If you don't the window to choose BCC won't come up.

The prices are low now. But when the next big one comes expect 18 times the value of the last little blip of $18,000 per BTC. I'll be glad I waited.   

So if I understand well I have two ways to get back my btc:
- download 150 gigabyte date
- export the keys from Armory and receive btc on another client like etherum

I'll repeat my question... have you checked the addresses (that Armory has generated from your paper backup) on a block explorer? Do they actually contain any BTC?

I am currently 494706 blocks on my end as of now. I'm not sure what you mean by start syn.

Bitcoin core and armory are both synced from what I can tell. Bitcoin core nor armory show any BTC.
Someone mentioned something about private keys, I can see a bunch of those if that means anything.

Armory is 0.96.399
Bitcoin core is v0.15.1