<p>I have an old paper wallet that was printed with <a href="https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/</a>. It has 0,1 BTC incoming on 2017-06-21 and 0,1 BTC outgoing on 2017-12-11.</p>
<p>So the BTC balance is zero, but since the fork of BTC to BTG (Bitcoin Gold) was on 2017-10-24 there should be a balance of 0,1 BTG on that address on the BTG network.</p>
<p>First I wanted to verify my theory that the BTG balance is actually there. But all of these sites say that address doesn't exist or is wrong.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://explorer.bitcoingold.org/insight/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://explorer.bitcoingold.org/insight/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://btg.tokenview.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://btg.tokenview.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://btgexplorer.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://btgexplorer.com/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>What am I missing here? Why is the address missing on these BTG explorers or how can I actually check my BTG balance?</p>

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2021-04-25T09:21:50.750Z
I just found the balance by using another explorer thanks to this answer https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/62631/help-with-bitcoin-gold-explorer-using-explorer-after-fork

When I understand more about why BTG explorer A is not able to find the address, but BTG explorer B is, I will make this into a proper answer
Christiaan Westerbeek
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2021-04-25T13:19:02.667Z
BTG changed its address format when it forked off to make the addresses incompatible between BTG and BTC. You can convert BTC addresses to BTG addresses using e.g. https://blog.ledger.com/btg-convert/.
Murch
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BTG address not found but there was a BTC transaction before 24-10-2017 on it, how to check BTG balance?
Christiaan Westerbeek
# BTG address not found but there was a BTC transaction before 24-10-2017 on it, how to check BTG balance?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-04-25)

I have an old paper wallet that was printed with <https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/>. It has 0,1 BTC incoming on 2017-06-21 and 0,1 BTC outgoing on 2017-12-11.

So the BTC balance is zero, but since the fork of BTC to BTG (Bitcoin Gold) was on 2017-10-24 there should be a balance of 0,1 BTG on that address on the BTG network.

First I wanted to verify my theory that the BTG balance is actually there. But all of these sites say that address doesn't exist or is wrong.

* <https://explorer.bitcoingold.org/insight/>
* <https://btg.tokenview.com/>
* <https://btgexplorer.com/>

What am I missing here? Why is the address missing on these BTG explorers or how can I actually check my BTG balance?

**Tags:** balance, bitcoin-gold

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I just found the balance by using another explorer thanks to this answer https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/62631/help-with-bitcoin-gold-explorer-using-explorer-after-fork  When I understand more about why BTG explorer A is not able to find the address, but BTG explorer B is, I will make this into a proper answer  
> **username_1**: BTG changed its address format when it forked off to make the addresses incompatible between BTG and BTC. You can convert BTC addresses to BTG addresses using e.g. https://blog.ledger.com/btg-convert/.  

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