I have been waiting and waiting to claim my Bitcoin Gold, I have been very sceptical with it all to say the least but I have finally claimed it and I believe it is the safest way. This guide will be written with using Bitcoin Core so if you use another wallet this method may not be perfect for you but if you control your private key it should be very similar
First things first create another wallet with Bitcoin core making sure you back up the new wallet.dat and the old wallet.dat. Move your funds into your new wallet, this is now your safe wallet that you will keep using. Your old wallet.dat will be the one that has the Bitcoin Gold, this is the one we are going to extract the keys from
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