I was thinking about this and burning a small amount or a large amount doesn’t really matter so long as you know you control the send address. All conversion options rely on the foundation and as long as you control the send address you can always re-do the application if something is amiss or lost. Just don’t specify a bad ETH receive address. But the burn is actually pretty low risk.
I already had metamask installed; when I switch to Arbitrum One, do I need to do something to generate a new compatible address or can I just keep using my old eth address that is already on there from before?
Its just an ETH address, for it all. Keep the old one if you want
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Will the native token also be called ANT?
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Is there a supported/recommended way for me to use bitcoin-qt or command line tools? The omniwallet.org instructions don’t work for me. Perhaps I did something wrong back in 2019 by using bitcoin-qt to generate an address and receive MAID?
I received MAID at this address generated by bitcoin-qt.
When I try dumping the private key for this address from bitcoin-qt and importing it into my new omniwallet.org wallet, the Bitcoin address omniwallet generates is different and doesn’t have my MAID.
I’ve tried using both private keys provided to me by bitaddress.org (compressed and regular, based on the private key “KxzM…D4hV” I got from using dumpprivkey in the bitcoin-qt console). I also notice that the Bitcoin address generated by bitcoin-qt is not displayed anywhere on bitaddress (suggested to try by the omniwallet help article):
I did try downloading Omniwallet Core to my desktop, but the client appears to be experimental and throws an error when I try to start it. Apparently it uses the same data directory as Bitcoin Core, and I’m hesistant to use the -startclean flag (I’m not sure if it would destroy Bitcoin Core’s copy of the Bitcoin blockchain).
Error: Shutting down due to failed checkpoint for block 250000 (hash 000000000000003887df1f29024b06fc2200b55f8af8f35453d7be294df2d214). Please restart with -startclean flag and if this doesn't work, please reach out to the support.
I have to use the private key with “5” at the front for omniwallet.org. bitaddress.org will take either private key and you can get the other.
Are you encrypting the private key with qt ?
Another choice is to use the omni core if you have another computer to access the MAID and if need send it onto a omniwallet.org generated address
You received Maid on a BTC segwit address starting with a 3. Omni does not support segwit addresses. I have heard there are ways to get around that problem but you will have to look through documentation on Omniwallet or if someone on the forum knows.
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I’m not using key encryption for my MAID. I went ahead and tried getting Omni Core on my other computer (a Mac).
Thanks for the suggestion but I’m giving up on it as being too unreliable. The Omni Core client says it should be regarded as alpha-quality software and it warns against using it for mainnet. And its behavior scared me off.
It asked me to choose whether I wanted to have the 300-some GB Bitcoin blockchain on my computer, or just 2 GB for a pruned blockchain (and either way, it has to verify all blocks initially). I chose pruned, then I got an error on startup - looks like it was attempting a command that is not supported for pruned blockchain. Every time I try to start Omni Core, the error occurs. I don’t seem to have a way to change the preference (so that it doesn’t try to use a pruned blockchain) - I poked around in my Mac’s files and not sure exactly where Omni Core is storing its preferences.
Thanks, I was able to create a transaction (to move MAID to the non-segwit address) based on this documentation. Now on omniwallet.org and omniexplorer.info I can see that it worked. I expect I should now be able to follow Autonomi’s MAID conversion guide.
I had to use an old version of Electrum. Otherwise the instructions were incorrect in several ways and unable to be followed for the current version of the client (e.g. the ‘Tools-> Pay To Many’ option does not exist and I couldn’t find equivalent functionality).
Based on the date of the wiki article was published, I (ignored the warning about security risk and) used an old Electrum wallet version (3.3.8) - then everything in the instructions lined up with what I was seeing.
The “Recovering funds from a Segwit Address” documentation scared me about the fee I would pay (it said “Make sure you have about 0.001 BTC on the address you need to recover/send the tokens from”, which would have been nearly $100!). But BTC was cheaper back then (and fees were higher) - I could tell based on their screenshot that they were paying 78.7 sats/byte instead of 3.5 sats/byte like I did (and that it was the reason they had that much of a cushion). The fee I paid for my transaction was only 0.0000055 BTC (about $0.53) and it was processed relatively quickly.
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Happy to hear that you solved it, good job and enjoy your future ANT’s. 
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I would appreciate if anyone could assist me, in simple language as Im not really familiar with many processes…
I have my MaidSafe coins in Coinpayments. And I received an email that it will be delisted from their platform and I need to move them out before 15 feb.
I really never used hard wallets, Im only active on binance, as I live in the middleast.
Can someone assist me on what I need to do so I dont lose my coins? If I burn them as mentioned above and there is a schedule, how will this work with 15 feb? and where r they airdropped? will my binance wallet work? I dont see ANT listed there yet!
I would get set up with Omniwallet (https://www.omniwallet.org/), and send your MAID there from Coinpayments.
If you haven’t set up a wallet like this before, be very careful to back up your details given during the setup process and keep them secure. If you lose them, you’d lose access to your Omniwallet and all assets on it. Also, if anyone else had access to your wallet details, they would be able to send assets wherever they wanted.
Once your MAID are on your own Omni wallet, from there, you’ll be able to carry out the MAID to ANT conversion process any time before February 2028, so no rush. There is a detailed guide on how to do it.
I don’t have experience with Coinpayments, but while they may keep withdrawals open beyond the de-listing date, I suggest getting your MAID off to an Omniwallet address you can use as soon as possible.
Once you have your MAID on your Omniwallet address, you will need to send a little BTC to it to cover network fees when you send MAID from Omniwallet to the burn address in the ANT conversion process.
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thanks a lot, will start doing that
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you can also go to bitaddress.org, disconnect your computer from the internet if you want, create an address and private key and import into omniwallet, and send the omni maid there.
okay, Ill ask a basic question perhaps, can you guide me a bit,
I setup my omniwallet. What exactly is the address I need to use for withdraw in coinpayments? Is it the address under Issuer for Maidsafe?
I don’t have Omniwallet in front of me just now, but if you open your Omniwallet, then find somewhere that says ‘receive’ or something.
Click on that, and it’ll give you an address to receive to.
Alternatively, select the ‘addresses’ tab, and you can see your addresses in there, or generate one that you can then use to receive your MAID to.
Thankfully, I have moved all my maids to omniwallet :)) Now I can go to bed :))
I guess later I have to figure out what are private keys there…
Thanks a lot for the assistance, that was helpful
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Well well, I have just received my Ant. Thank you!
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I also received my ANT tokens today. Thank you @Bux and @JimCollinson for all your hard work in creating a process to get this done. It feels quite surreal to have my tokens for the live network after all these years, but in a good way 
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I too have received my ANT (MAID conversion). Very straightforward process with excellent instructions. Thanks!
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