RE: August 1st, and the Art of Not Getting F#rked
One thing that I'm a little embarrassed to admit and have failed to get an answer for after doing a fair amount of research is the answer to the question: how do I ensure that I get bitcoins A, B, ..., if I have all my bitcoins stored on a Trezor?
I know that the 24 seed words are the "master private key" to all my public keys for the Trezor, but I'm not sure how to take those seed words to claim the bitcoins from the different chains after a hard-fork, or how to get the individual private keys to the various public keys (I have something like 160 public keys on my Trezor at this time!). I've considered downloading the client wallet to transfer all my coins to in order to find out what my private key(s) is(are), but I'm fairly certain that this isn't necessary.
Does anyone reading this happen to know how this works, regarding the Trezor, and how I can ensure that I get all versions of the coin after hard-forks?
Oh you should never be embarrassed to admit these things we're all trying to understand as well.
From what I found out, everyone says that if it forks you should wait out a few weeks before choosing which one to go with the BTU or the other.. Basically it could be replicated, though the value could be less than the sum of the two coins.
I may be wrong, but if somebody has some insight maybe they can help clarify this for you.