<p>Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash Options</p>

<p>Option 1)
Seems a bit more confusing but a splitting tool available: <a href="https://github.com/NicolasDorier/BCCSpliter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/NicolasDorier/BCCSpliter</a> </p>

<p>Option 2)
The wallet.dat is what holds our wallet private keys. DO NOT EVER DELETE wallet.dat</p>

<p>Here is where you can get the Bitcoin Cash bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, etc: <a href="https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/</a></p>

<p>[Windows] Make sure you backup your bitcoin core windows wallet if you have one. Or send the bitcoin to an exchange. This will overwrite your bitcoin core on windows.</p>

<p>Always backup the wallet.dat</p>

<p>Steps (Windows):
- Download <a href="https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/win/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/win/</a>
- Sync with network
- Find path (mine was C:\Program Files\Bitcoin)
- Put wallet.dat in AppData folder</p>

<p>[Linux] Setup a separate Amazon AWS for bitcoin cash.. This is for safety because I read that Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash can conflict if not done correctly.</p>

<p>Steps (Linux):</p>

<p>Setup AWS Instance
- Sudo su 
- passwd root
- Yum install wget
- Cd ~
- Wget <a href="https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/linux/bitcoin-0.14.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/linux/bitcoin-0.14.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz</a>
- Tar xzf bitcoin-0.14.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
- sudo install -m 0755 -o root -g root -t /usr/local/bin bitcoin-0.14.6/bin/*
- Bitcoind
- Let sync then upload the wallet.dat</p>

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<p>So our server has bitcond and we have bitcoin on it.</p>

<p>How do we get our bitcoin cash?</p>

<bitcoind><bitcoin-cli><bitcoin-cash>
Bitcoind how to get my bitcoin cash
Marc Alexander
# Bitcoind how to get my bitcoin cash

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-02)

So our server has bitcond and we have bitcoin on it.

How do we get our bitcoin cash?

**Tags:** bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-cash


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2017-08-04. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash Options

Option 1)
Seems a bit more confusing but a splitting tool available: <https://github.com/NicolasDorier/BCCSpliter>

Option 2)
The wallet.dat is what holds our wallet private keys. DO NOT EVER DELETE wallet.dat

Here is where you can get the Bitcoin Cash bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, etc: <https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/>

[Windows] Make sure you backup your bitcoin core windows wallet if you have one. Or send the bitcoin to an exchange. This will overwrite your bitcoin core on windows.

Always backup the wallet.dat

Steps (Windows):
- Download <https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/win/>
- Sync with network
- Find path (mine was C:\Program Files\Bitcoin)
- Put wallet.dat in AppData folder

[Linux] Setup a separate Amazon AWS for bitcoin cash.. This is for safety because I read that Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash can conflict if not done correctly.

Steps (Linux):

Setup AWS Instance
- Sudo su
- passwd root
- Yum install wget
- Cd ~
- Wget <https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.14.6/linux/bitcoin-0.14.6-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz>
- Tar xzf bitcoin-0.14.6-x86\_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
- sudo install -m 0755 -o root -g root -t /usr/local/bin bitcoin-0.14.6/bin/\*
- Bitcoind
- Let sync then upload the wallet.dat


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