Quote from: TheBTCAlex on October 10, 2017, 03:27:31 PM

Quote from: pat4cryptoreal on October 06, 2017, 04:54:01 PM

This a very educative information. I want to know what you mean by desktop wallet. Is it the normal blockchain.info wallet that we all know or is it another type of wallet?

It means NOT keeping your coins in something like blockchain.info wallet, it is an online wallet.
What is meant by desktop wallets are wallets like Electrum, and Bitcoin Armory, the ones that you have complete control over our money on, and where you have control of your private keys.

Actually Im not sure this is true. I *think* (but Im not certain) that blockchain.info users will be able claim BTG after the fork, but I really want to get some clarity on this.

I had BTC stored in a blockchain.info wallet during the BCH fork and I was able to claim all the BCH I was entitled to. At that time I actually had my BTC stored in what blockchain.info refers to as 'imported addresses' and I was able to use Coinomi to get that BCH. I used Coinomi to get about half of the BCH I had. Then, just a few days ago blockchain.info released their own support for BCH making it possible for me to claim the rest of my BCH within my blockchain.info wallet, without having to use Coinomi. I am hoping that blockchain wallet users will also be able to claim BTG after the coming fork as well.

But I'm hoping others have more info on this? I will message blockchain support to ask and Ill post whatever response I get back.

Quote from: Wall-ET on October 13, 2017, 08:04:19 AM

Quote from: niisarearning on October 13, 2017, 07:20:09 AM

Thanks for your generous answer but what happens I keep my bitcoin in web wallet let?s say blockchain.info where I am holding access for my private key. Can able to get bitcoin gold.even till now I dint claim bcc for the holding I had in blockchain.info on august fork.

In this case you do not have the private keys thus no access to the forked coins...

EDIT: You will need a paper wallet or @ PC or Hardware wallet in order to have access to the forked coins...

Blockchain.info wallet users do have access to their private keys. You dont get the private keys itself, rather you have a 'recovery phrase' that serves as your private key and allows you to import you blockchain wallet into any other desktop wallets if you wanted to.

From the blockchain.info blog:
As always, our wallets are non-custodial and you, our users, hold the private keys, meaning you always have full, exclusive access to your funds with your recovery phrase and can import them into another wallet of your choosing.

So blockchain.info wallet users do have access to our private keys (via the recovery phrase). I think you would claim your BTG like this:
-After the BTG fork you would transfer you BTC to another wallet for security.
-Then you would use the recovery phrase of the old wallet that held BTC during the fork to claim BTG in a wallet that supports BTG.
-You would be able to use any desktop or online wallet to claim the BTG that supported importing an address via a recovery phrase?

Please note that I'm not certain this is the case. I'm researching this now and would appreciate any input from others.

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