Here's my problem with the hardfork (unless I totally misunderstand it):
I had some ETH stored on the "old" blockchain. I bought them during all the DAO publicity, but never actually bought any part of the DAO contract.
The client, if you are un-ware, is a massive disk space hog. Because of this, I stopped running it.
Now, because of the hardfork, in order to get my value back out of the old chain and into the new one, I have to attach an external disk to my computer, and use it to store the chain.
Can I transfer out of the old and into the new chain indefinitely? I have no idea (maybe I'm just bad at google). Can I even transfer now today (once the client finishes syncing [it has been going literally all day today])? Don't know.
I get the why of the hardfork, and I'm not saying that I'm going to stop supporting ethereum, just venting a little bit.
Turns out new technology is new! And sometimes corner cases like mine haven't been accounted for!
You don't need to transfer between forks or anything of the like, the only difference for you is that you now have two types of coins. Eg if you had 21 ETH before the fork you now have 21 ETH on the hardfork chain and 21 ETC (ethereum classic is what they call it) on the hardfork opposing chain.
Besides there are light clients that don't require the entire chain to be stored on disk, there are even some that run entirely in your browser like https://www.myetherwallet.com
Now if you want to interact with the hardfork opposing chain things gets a bit more difficult because it doesn't have much dev support and as far as I know there are no light clients supporting it.
Do you have the password to your wallet? There shouldn't be anything that you have to DO. Your money is already on the new chain. Just use any updated client.
I had some ETH stored on the "old" blockchain. I bought them during all the DAO publicity, but never actually bought any part of the DAO contract.
The client, if you are un-ware, is a massive disk space hog. Because of this, I stopped running it.
Now, because of the hardfork, in order to get my value back out of the old chain and into the new one, I have to attach an external disk to my computer, and use it to store the chain.
Can I transfer out of the old and into the new chain indefinitely? I have no idea (maybe I'm just bad at google). Can I even transfer now today (once the client finishes syncing [it has been going literally all day today])? Don't know.
I get the why of the hardfork, and I'm not saying that I'm going to stop supporting ethereum, just venting a little bit.
Turns out new technology is new! And sometimes corner cases like mine haven't been accounted for!