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Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centrali... by shawabawa3 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @08:44AM (#21979805)
when the fork happened there were indeed scam sites that asked you to "paste your private key to see if you have BCH"

There were also replay attacks possible, so that if you paid some BCH to someone they could replay the transaction to get the corresponding BTC as well

Neither of these are a concern anymore AFAIK (the first one never really was, never give away your private key)

And yes, "bcash" has a negative connotation.

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Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centrali... by lawn on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:51AM (#21981073)
You confuse it with other forks, for example in Bitcoin Gold key stealing was very prevalent. It wasn't a big problem for Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash also had replay protection from the start.
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