4 easy & safe steps to claim your BCC for Electrum wallet users holding bitcoins!
Well Electrum has come out with an updated update which can be seen here: https://electrum.org/bcc2.txt
Here are 4 easy steps to follow if you have any bitcoins stored in your Electrum wallet and want to claim your rightful BitcoinCash:
Install Electron Cash (http://www.electroncash.org/) on a machine that does not have your Electrum wallets.
Wait until the BCC hard fork has taken place, and a few BCC blocks have been mined.
Move all your Electrum funds to a new Electrum wallet. This will move only your BTC, and not your BCC, because the BCC blockchain has replay protection. Wait until the transaction is fully confirmed.
Enter the seed of your (now empty) old wallet or private keys in Electron Cash. Since the BTC have been moved to a new wallet, entering your old seed in Electron Cash will not put your BTC funds at risk.
Following these 4 easy steps you will be able to safely access your BCC without compromising your BTC.
It is important to stress
If you do have an electrum wallet, it will make a copy of the wallet and put it into the Electrum Cash directory.
https://github.com/fyookball/electrum/commit/0fc02cceee9d3465849dcecb2c1126de7cf65550
Especially considering the fact that the binaries are anonymous/aren't being signed by a person using their real name, they could do something malicious and not be held responsible, etc.
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