I've got a very precise question about (self-)protection vs replay attacks in Bitcoin but to clearly explain myself, I need to explain what I did with Ethereum.
When the Ethereum fork happened (ETH / ETC) I did split my ETH / ETC myself. At first I failed (my tx got replayed on both chains, but I was in control of all the addresses, including the destination address) and then I did it like this:
- I had 2500 ETH pre-fork on a single address, so post post fork I had 2500 ETH and 2500 ETC.
- sent 5 ETHs on the ETH chain only
- Move 2505 ETHs to an ETH-only wallet
- Move 2500 ETC to an ETC-only wallet
My thinking was that the tx to move 2505 ETH on the ETH chain wouldn't be replayable (because on the ETC chain I had only 2500 ETC, not 2505 ETC) and, surely enough, this time it worked.
I know that there were other ways to achieve the same result but that's how I choosed to do it because I really liked the idea of creating a tx that wouldn't be valid on the other chain.
However I'm not familiar enough with Bitcoin and UTXO and what precisely makes a tx nor how it is signed to understand how this would work under Bitcoin.
If there's one (or several) hard fork, can I use the same technique to "split the BTCs" myself?
For example if I have 80 BTC on a hierarchical deterministic wallet (Ledger Nano S in my case), can I send 0.1 BTC there, then move 80.1 BTC and be sure this movement of 80.1 BTC is not going to be replayable on the fork where I still only have 80 BTC?
Would that work?
Note that this question is not: "How do I split my coins in case of a hardfork?" but "Would this particular method of splitting work on Bitcoin too, just liked it worked for me on Ethereum?"
