Newbie questions

[hakunin]

Hi Jimmy,
I am trying to figure out how to split by coins. I am a developer but I don't use Python or do any crypto/blockchain development.

I know you're busy but maybe someone else could make a video going through the process, or just talk about the functions that are there to make it slightly simpler to understand what I need to do.

1. First I notice this WIF format, which seems to be slightly different from what I get from electrum, but I bet I can run a function inside the playbook to convert it.

2. I generated new seed just to see what the HD key does, but it failed so I have no idea.

3. After a while of staring at the Bitcoin Diamond script, I figured out I need to look at my old public address and copy over the transactions that into the data and wif_lookups which currently don't say "FILL THIS IN". After I figure out point 3, this should be easy.

4. Looks like there is nowhere to broadcast the Diamond fork transaction now? (Since other examples seem to have a way to do that)

I bet its super simple to do when one has any practical knowledge of blochain, but not so much for a newb so a video would help tremendously.

[prahaladbelavadi]

Hey @hakunin
Check out @jimmysong 's lecture at Stanford on making transactions.
This helped me a lot while understanding transactions and it could probably help you too.
WIF is wallet import format which is one of the many formats in which keys are stored.
HD keys are a binary tree of keys originating from a single seed. There are different utilities based on the kind of key its derived from.
I do not know bitcoin as good jimmy does, but I'd be happy to help where ever I can.
Cheers!