Thanks mate, it's OK, I do have an old Windows machine I dusted off and can do it with. Taking hours to download a few years of security updates lol

Surprisingly, they are still there. There are no generalized MEV / replayer bots out there doing their thing?

Whether you think these forks have a use case or not, as someone coming back to the Bitcoin ecosystem after a while, it's difficult to understate how much damage these chains have done to the Bitcoin brand. I work in blockchain and should be an informed user, and it was confusing as hell even just searching for the correct "official" site and client. Many of them look like outright scams. Not in the "bcash is a scam" way, but they look like actual malware sites or MLM schemes. Incredible.

Update for anyone following along:

After securing my BTC, tried the following:

BCH
This was the easiest to manage, seems like there's an ecosystem that is alive at least. Electron Cash app seemed to work fine, forked coins were there and I was able to send to exchange and swap for BTC. Works as advertised.

Result = Claimed!

BSV
Looks like a dead ecosystem. The main website looks like bizarre propaganda for CSW, with little to no information about the technology. There is an electron fork that doesn't look maintained. Only have binaries available for Windows and Mac. No AppImage or deb file for Linux, have to build from source. Tried to build from source but it only supports up to Python 3.9.X. Tried to build with 3.10 but lots of errors. Doesn't look widely supported on exchanges and for the pittance I would be collecting here, my time is worth more than this.

Result = Abandoned.

eCash
No idea what this network is meant to be. They did a share split 1:1000000 so now everyone looks wealthy. There is an Electron ABC for Linux which appears well supported and I was able to claim my coins. Appears Binance supports this asset so I sign a transaction to deposit to my personal Binance. No block has been mined for over 40 minutes. Transaction is still unconfirmed. Feels dead.

Result = Pending, but likely abandoned.

Nothing else worth doing, already wasted too much time on these. Thanks everyone for all your comments, Merry Christmas!

True, I guess I was adding context to a potential "why are you asking this in 2023?"

Haven't really logged in here for ten years! I recently was able to crack a RAR file containing an old wallet.dat after 5 years of work. What's the current state of all the forks and how to I protect myself while claiming them and swapping for BTC?

I assume only BCH, BSV are probably worth the time. Is the general workflow here:

1. Send the BTC to a fresh hardware wallet, wait for it to confirm. It's now safe.
2. Now download whatever fork wallets and claim those.
3. Send forks wherever and swap for BTC.

Are there any safe non-KYC exchanges where I can do the swaps?

This. What the hell? He's dragging it out for page views or something like a podcast? Just do something with the genesis block already?

$300-$320

I would be surprised if there was a crazy exponential rise ever again. Too much profit taking / break-even and running will happen at all the psychological pain points - all the even hundred's back up to $1200. I can only see small incremental rises as all the innovation, VC, and exposure from the last 18 months starts to pay off.

Nah, solve blocks by hand, post results by carrier pigeon. Satoshi planned for this eventuality. 

Unfortunately, without recognition from other countries or the UN or something, this will amount to nothing more than a website.

Used my Coinjar EFT card for the first time yesterday at Safeway. Worked fine, when I finally remembered the pin.

Overall, I think it's a novel idea but in the back of my mind I feel it's not really helping the long-term prospects of bitcoin. It's basically a gift card which you load up with bitcoin. Once someone figures out a way to make spending bitcoin on the blockchain (not converting back and forth to dollars) as simple as using an EFT card or PayPass/PayWave - the bitcoin ecosystem will be ready to take off.

Not so sure about the conversion and ATM fees and so on. I mean I know they're running a business (and have to insure against slippage) but in my mind I feel bitcoin is meant to be new model where users are not nickel-and-dimed to death. This card is very bank-like, if you know what I mean.

But yeah, I'm giving it a go...

No, you'll still have 100 bitcoins, not 1000000.

I always switch to Linux and use a TrueCrypt file container for my wallet - version left at 7.1a before all the "is not secure" stuff, plus the bitcoin-qt wallet encryption password. I know there are more robust solutions out there but I have a small BTC balance and I rarely transact. If someone is determined I'm sure they could get at it but I can't be bothered to take the paper/full cold wallet route just yet. I'm a programmer and the fact that I can't be bothered running through some of the hoops is saying something about the viability of public uptake of bitcoin. The sooner an all-in-one security and blockchain setup comes along which makes it simple for non-technical people, the better.

Re: Tor - To be honest - even though I love the Tor Project (ran relays on an Amazon instance for a while) - I'm not doing anything illegal or noteworthy in my country that makes me think I should be using it. I've transferred from my local bank accounts to a couple of exchanges already so it would be trivial for whomever to figure out I'm in the bitcoin space regardless.

Will your "special arrangement" of free electricity still exist after the first month's bill comes in and the company/person paying sees how much you're drawing from the socket?

This troll is incredulous he got so many legit responses to his obvious lolpost. Keep on keeping on Speculation.

Some Bitcoin Exchanges Miners Might Die In 2015

Some girl this year on Tinder made a Dogecoin reference when chatting with me. Beat, brag, or variance?

But yes, of course they use bitcoin. Percentage-wise it's going to be low for the time being. When your grandma is using bitcoin though, you'll know.

Hodling from $100.... 

FWIW, CoinJar have now relocated to London and no longer have to collect GST.

No one, on either side of the fence, is vying for "control" of this section. What would "control" even mean? That only their viewpoints are tabled and everything else is deleted? It's an open forum, people post whatever and whenever they choose. Anyone with any sense should see that surrounding yourself with people that echo your own beliefs is a good recipe for intellectual stagnation.

High quality and thought-provoking posts should foster discussion and rise to the top, irrespective of the poster's bull/bear status. If people stopped strongly identifying with this crap and just discussed bitcoin we'd be a lot better off.

Yeah wouldn't confirmations just be (very) slow for a few days while home miners or smaller outfits grab all the block rewards? Then the difficulty would plummet at next adjustment and we'd be back to normal...

OP's link now shows a small difficulty increase for next adjustment