RE: Breaking: Instantly exchange Bitcoin Cash to Bitcoin and 49 other cryptos

[lukestokes]

The stuff I read about the developer who compiled that and chose to remain anonymous concerns me. I don't have Electrum installed, just clean private keys from paper wallets. By "clean" I mean I've already moved the BTC off them, but they should have BCC there.

Maybe I'll try this today, but I'm not a fan of installing software that isn't trusted by the community. Glad to hear it worked out for you. I think the second machine (one with nothing else of value) may be a good way to go.

Thanks!

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[ash]

or use a sandbox program.

[lukestokes]

What Electron Cash server are you using? I'm trying to follow instructions here and not making much progress. Seems to disconnect from electrum_abc.criptolayer.net:50012:s over and over again. I'm googling around, not finding much help yet.

[lukestokes]

Ah, I got it working. Had to delete ~/.electrum/blockchain_headers as it was set to the wrong chain. IRC to the rescue! :)

[ash]

I used the standard one... I guess. already uninstalled electron though

[lukestokes]

I spent all night on it and never got it to work. Pretty frustrating. :( I could never get it passed errors like this:

[electrum_abc.criptolayer.net] catching up from 478560
[electrum_abc.criptolayer.net] requesting chunk 237
[Blockchain] verify_chunk failed bits mismatch: 402736949 vs 402757890

Or if I'd start on a single server I'd end up getting stuck on block 478576 with errors like this:

Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.pyc", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/network.py", line 979, in run
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/network.py", line 946, in wait_on_sockets
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/network.py", line 640, in process_responses
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/network.py", line 586, in process_response
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/network.py", line 833, in on_get_header
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/blockchain.py", line 316, in can_connect
  File "/Applications/Electron-Cash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib/blockchain.py", line 279, in get_target
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

So far, it has defeated me, and I really hate being defeated.

I got a little help in IRC, but not enough to make it work. Maybe my comp has some funky python setup or something. I dunno. I'm done fighting with it.