I mined some Ethereum before the DAO hardfork. At the time I didn't really understand what the hardfork meant. I just went with the flow and updated the software and I didn't realize I also received coins on the Ethereum Classic network. Now that I do, I would like to access them. But I don't know where to start.
While mining, the ETC was sent to a contract, not an account. And in my ETH wallet, I can't see the contract. I remember deleting or cancelling the contract after I transferred all the received mined coins. But this was on the ETH network, not the ETC network. I looked up the ETC contract address on gastracker.io and it still has the ETC balance I expected. The contract belongs to the wallet I still have the keystore file for. I just don't know how to access this contract to transfer the coins on the ETC network.
I would really appreciate it if somebody could point me in the right direction. Thank you very much for your time.
Best Answer
I finally figured it out... I tried so many things, but the Mist software for Ethereum Classic is full with bugs in the features that I needed. In the end I started to read up on contracts and my eye fell upon the option to suicide a contract (kill it). So I went into
MyEtherWallet.com -> Contracts
Put in all the information requested and chose the Kill contract method. This killed the contract and the funds went back to my main address. I then proceeded to move these ETC into my Ledger wallet. This little project took me about 11 hours in total, but I ended up with 209 ETC in my wallet. So this story has a happy ending!