How to Split BCH and BCHA in 2021
How to Safely Split BitcoinCashABC and BitcoinCash coins using official desktop wallet.
What is Bitcoin Cash?
Bitcoin Cash is a digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. It uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Cash is a descendant of Bitcoin.
What is BCHA?
Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA) is a coin resulted from a hard fork from Bitcoin Cash on November 15th 2020. It has very similar attribuets to Bitcoin Cash, however BCHA includes a miner’s tax where 8% of the mining rewards will be distirbuted for protocol development financing.
How can I get BCHA?
If you held Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in a wallet with private key you control, you will also have equivalent amount of BCHA in your wallet on the snapshot of November 15th 2020.
Basic steps to split your coins:
Step 1.
BCHnode wallet that can be located via their project page — https://bchnodewallet.org
Step 2.
Select the option to log into your wallet.
At the moment, the desktop version and the online version are available.
We will be using the online version in this tutorial.
Step 3.
Choose an item “Use existing wallet”
You can import cryptocurrency from your BCH wallet.
Step 4.
Choose an item “Log with BitcoinCash wallet” or “Log with Private Key”
For example, we will use “Log with BitcoinCash wallet”
We need to enter BCH Secret Mnemonic
Step 5. We enter the wallet
Step 6. After a quick synchronization of the blockchain, you will see your correct balance at the time of the network update
Also be sure you keep a copy of the original wallet backup you made above in case you would accidental reuse one of your original BCH addresses in the future. While you technically could go back to using those old address (keys), the best practice (and my recommendation) is not to and just move everything to new wallets, with new keys that have been freshly generated, to avoid potential problems later on.
The good news is that, if everything went according to plan, Bitcoin Cash Node enforces strong replay protection. This means you shouldn’t be able to accidentally spend your BCHA when you mean to spend BCHN, or vice versa.
