If you had a Dogecoin address containing at least one coin before May 10th 2014, a copy of the address was created and awarded with 4.6055 Clam.
With the recent drop in Bitcoin, those Clams were suddenly worth messing with.
I had four addresses with nonzero balances on that fine day; I've just converted them to Dogecoin, doubling my tiny stash!
Here's what worked for me:
- Installed the Clam client, from https://github.com/nochowderforyou/clams/releases
- Fired it up and opened the console. (No, I didn't have to wait for the blockchain to load.)
- In my Dogecoin client, visited the console window and did
exportprivkey [address]for an address that had a balance on 2014/5/10. - Copied the resulting private key, went back to the Clam console, and did
importprivkey [privkey]for the privkey you I copied out of the Doge console. - Flipped back to my dashboard in the Clam client and was delighted to see that I had a balance!
- Repeated steps 3-5 for each of my old Doge addresses.
- Visited Shapeshift.io, changed Deposit to Clam and Receive to Doge.
- Entered the Doge address I wanted to use for my converted Clams.
- Sent a Clam over to the Shapeshift deposit address from my Clam client.
- Chewed my nails for a bit until Shapeshift registered my deposit, made the conversion, and sent the Doge to the right address.
- Reloaded Shapeshift (important! the deposit address changed!) and repeated steps 7-10 with the rest of my clammy booty!