ElectrumSV Wallet can only be downloaded from https://www.electrumbsv.org When users have coins that existed before Bitcoin Cash became a separate blockchain from Bitcoin SV, those coins are linked on both blockchains. When they are sent in a wallet on one blockchain, that action can also send them on the other blockchain. Users have had this accidentally happen to them, and the recipient has refused to refund the coins from the blockchain the user did not intend to send on.

If you think you have unsplit coins in your Electrum bsv wallet, you can use ElectrumSV’s coin-splitting feature to split them. But keep in mind that you are responsible for your own coins, you should verify for yourself that the splitting worked. And if you are unsure whether your coins need to be split, you can always split them anyway. How does splitting work? The process is simple, if the coins are sent on Electrum sv wallet in a way that is incompatible with Bitcoin Cash, then the coins are split.

Any usage of those specific coins that have been split will from then on be independent on either blockchain. In order to keep it simple ElectrumSV wallet, we only do the simplest case. We make your wallet do a payment to itself that combines all the available coins within it in a way that should be valid on bitcoin sv wallet SV and not Bitcoin Cash. This results in one single split coin combining all the individual coins that you had in your wallet before the split.

How you split your coins Unfortunately, all the coins in the wallet used here are already split. So the following is just going through the process to show you how it works. You can see that this wallet contains a small amount of Bitcoin SV. Let’s start by changing to the coin-splitting tab: Selecting the coin-splitting tab. Selecting the coin-splitting tab. Once you are looking at the coin-splitting tab, you have two options.

Either direct splitting or faucet splitting. We recommend the direct splitting, and do not really support the faucet splitting any more. Direct splitting does not work for hardware wallets, which due to inherent limitations can only work in simple ways. The coin-splitting tab. The coin-splitting tab. Clicking on the direct splitting button will ask you for your password. You will see that the balance of the splitting transaction is the balance of the available coins in the wallet.

Approve the splitting payment. Approve the splitting payment. After you enter your password, it will sign and broadcast your transaction. This will happen pretty quickly, and once it is done you will see a dialog letting you know the splitting transaction was broadcast. The split action completion message. The split action completion message. You can now go back to the bsv electrum wallet history tab and see the splitting transaction there, which has an automatic description noting what it was created for.