Questions tagged [ledger-hardware-wallet]
Ledger is a popular hardware wallet manufacturer.
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What is the controversy with Ledger's new recovery service?
There has been a lot of controversy recently over Ledger's new recovery service which will shard your seed out to third parties for storage. What is the controversy?
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How to get public master key of a Ledger wallet?
I have a ledger Nano S and would like to know how to extract the public master key of its wallet, in order to do HD key derivation in an external process.
Is there a way or is this info never exposed ...
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How to know balance in Ledger Nano S?
Ledger wallets have a single static address where to send BTC to, but when looking at the details of the transactions, it is always recorded as different receiving addresses. Looking up the static ...
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How do Ledger Backups get stored?
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Say you have configured a ledger wallet with 10 BTC and 10 ETH. You then lose this said wallet but you have the 24 unique words. You buy another ledger wallet enter the 24 words and BAM, ...
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Can a Ledger Nano X hold multiple Bitcoin Wallets?
From my reading of Ledger Nano X, it can hold multiple types of currency, for instance, Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Can it hold two or more separate Bitcoin wallets with different balances?
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Warning Newbie: How does a Ledger hold multiple currencies?
So you startup your ledger, copy down your 24 words, and you now have a public and private key. (I think). Now you add the BitCoin App to your Ledger and you can add BTC to your "hardware wallet" ...
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What hierarchical deterministic derivation path is used for FIDO authentication on a Ledger Nano S?
What hierarchical deterministic derivation path is used for FIDO authentication on a Ledger Nano S? Does it ask for a different key each time or is it always the same key?
If I connect to Google for ...
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Manually extracting ledger nano s wallet public / private keys using "Mnemonic Code Converter" from ledger
I have the following example seed:
morning twist board pelican denial retire middle inherit evil
ritual omit fade general toddler grace evoke recipe
sad minor destroy public dawn scissors cube
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What is special about a private blockchain based on proof of stake?
I recently came across a paper published in 1988 called "A quorum-based commit and termination protocol for distributed database systems". I could not read it because it is not free, but to me this ...
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Can i send bitcoin from non-segwit address to segwit address?
can i transfer bitcoins from my exchange(Koinex) which has address starting from 1xx...
to a ledger nano s segwit address starting with 3x.... ?
Although coinbase is not my exchange i am talking ...
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I have 23 words of my 24 word mnemonic (and passphrase) for my ledger nano-s, is it possible for me to brute-force the last word (not in order)
I have ended up wiping my ledger nanao S during test (thoroughly stupid I know) and I am left with 23 (!) seed words and a passphrase. I understand that I should have both backed up my wallet, and ...
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How to get Ledger Nano S to work in an Ubuntu VirtualBox?
I installed the ledger manager on Ubuntu VirtualBox, but I can't see any of my USB devices. My host OS is Windows 10. How do I get this to work?
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Bought a used ledger nano s from Amazon / Ebay. How do you factory reset the Ledger Nano S?
I just bought a used ledger nano s from amazon and ebay. What is the best method of wiping this device and factory reset it? What are some other precautions before using this used device?
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How can one reinitialize the HW.1?
I've got a HW.1 a while back at a conference without any additional information. I had played around with it a little bit then, but didn't intend to use it as a wallet immediately.
Now, I've been ...
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How can I accelerate confirmations in ledger nano s?
I am using Ledger Nano S hardware wallet to store my bitcoins. Last week, for an experiment, I decided to send bitcoins to hitbtc currency exchange with zero btc fees. I was wondering how many hours ...
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Same seed on multiple hardware wallets
Let's say I have two Ledger hardware wallets. Can I use the same seed phrase on both simultaneously and be able to work with my crypto on either whenever I want having access to the same accounts?
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If hardware wallet provider disappears, can I still manage my coins?
I don't fully understand how hardware wallets work, there are two major brands, I will not name them.
I see they give you a seed and you can restore from that seed, but...
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How are Ledger Nano S private keys protected?
I've read quite some material but it boils down that there "is a chip" on Ledger Nano S and the private key never leaves it. But what I would like to know is the following.
Is it encrypted? If so, ...
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Adding a legacy address to an existing Electrum wallet
Using ledger nano s I created several addresses - native segwit, taproot, legacy, etc.
I sent to one of them a small amount and it shows up.
I later re-created the wallet using the BIP39 phrase in ...
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24 Word Mnemonic Seed Phrase for Ledger Nano S usable on Trezor?
Can I use my 24 word mnemonic backup seed phrase that created on my Ledger Nano S on other devices that use a 24 word seed phrase? An example would be the Trezor hardware wallet.
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Ledger 8 pin number how hard in terms of entropy is it to guess?
ledger has a max. 8 number pin for unlocking it as far I know.
I am very interested, can someone say if (given any method/resources) it is in any scenario (except luck) possible to guess this 8 ...
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Is it possible to brute force the Secure Element of Ledger Nano S?
Only things I could find about this subject always tell that Ledger has a secure element like SIM cards and credit cards have. Also something about another OS running near the main application. But ...
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Can you retrieve funds send to a legacy address created with a Segwit extended private key imported in Mycelium from a Ledger Nano S?
I imported a segwit xpub6-key in Mycelium as a watch only address. It only shows address starting with 1 instead of 3, which makes sense. I retrieved a small amount on the legacy address and it shows ...
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How can a 24 word seed know when I added or removed wallets at a later point?
Since I do not have 50 Rep points I had to post my question this way!
This is an answer by "https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/56917/rstack" to the question "How do Ledger Backups get stored?"
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Recovering a Ripple wallet on Ledger Nano
I have 20 XRP in a Ledger Nano and before I load everything onto it I want to test the recovery procedure so I am prepared in case something goes wrong down the track
I have read the material here on ...
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How will the Ledger Half Custodian SegWit2x coin split work?
This may be jumping the gun but does anyone know how the "half custodian" approach for splitting SegWit2x coins that's mentioned in this Ledger blog post will work?
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Is a smart card more than an non-updatable/inacessible and tamper resistant software?
This question is asked in light of the latest Ledger Recover debacle, and an earlier question.
I'm trying to understand whether devices such as smart cards or YubiKeys are anything more than than a ...
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How to generate a legacy-compatible address using Ledger Live?
I'm trying to withdraw funds from Bittrex to my Ledger device, but it seems they do not accept native Segwit addresses.
Is it possible to generate a legacy-compatible address (for instance a P2SH-...
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createPaymentTransactionNew with Bech32 address
How to properly call createPaymentTransactionNew using @ledgerhq/hw-app-bt to spend utxos from a bech32 transaction?
This is the code I'm using to call it, having previously defined inputs and purpose,...
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How to retrieve total BTC held in Ledger wallet
I'm new to Ledger.
As a software engineer, I'd like to write my own app (for my own personal use) that is sort of like a more basic version of Ledger Live.
I want to show my balances on my own private ...
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Can private keys be physically extracted from a Ledger hardware wallet?
The Ledger company says that their chips are super safe so that even if some electronic engineers get your Ledger wallet, they cannot get your private key. But is that true?
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Why does each Bitcoin wallet application generate the same new receive address?
I use Sparrow, Ledger Live, BlueWallet and Nunchuk Bitcoin wallets. I was under the impression that new receive addresses are randomly generated. However, I have noticed that each wallet application ...
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How do you import an xPub from a Ledger Nano to a watch only Bitcoin Core
I am having trouble figuring out how to import my xPub from my Ledger Nano to a watch only Full node (Bitcoin Core 0.17.1) Could someone please explain how to do this? I am reading different things. ...
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What is the 25th word in a mnemonic seed when used on a ledger nano s?
By default ledger nano s generates a 24 word mnemonic. What is the 25th word feature? Is the the passphrase they are talking about?
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Coinbase & Hardware wallet relationship
Aside from learning about all of bitcoin just for fun (mathematician with spare time), I currently own some bitcoin IOU's via Robinhood, but I would like to actually own my bitcoin (my keys, my coins! ...
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How to do RBF using the Ledger Nano / Ledger Live
Would anyone here please be able to tell me how to do RBF using the ledger nano- I can see the transaction has been stuck for about 12 hours now. The TX is ...
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How to see the entire history of my Ledger wallet?
I followed the instructions from this Reddit post on how to find my xpub address and tapped the wrench icon button and then "Detailed logs" in Ledger Live.
The problem is that this xpub value works ...
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What is the threat model of a Bitcoin HSM / Hardware Wallet?
There are many devices available which purport to allow for the secure storage of Bitcoin in adversarial environments, such as compromised computers or potentially untrusted host devices such as ...
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Get back my change [closed]
Please help. I was new to thew blockchain and did not know about getting change back. when the address to give me my change showed up on my Ledger nano wallet I hit the x instead of the check mark. I ...
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Is the Ledger Implementation of BIP39 Generation Not Following the Spec?
According to the BIP39 spec, invalid checksums should be displayed by software.
However, Ledger's BIP39 generation tool (which looks like a copy of Ian's tool), will not show an error for invalid ...
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help can I recover ltc sent to a btc address
Im super new like a lot of people. I have a nano s ledger and I attetpted to send ltc from coinbase to the ledger only to realize I used the btc address on my ledger. Is this recoverable?
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Can I use a single Hardware Ledger for multiple coins
I am about to buy a hardware ledger to store my coins but I was wondering if I would be needing one ledger per coin I own or if one can hold all or some.
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Segwit Taproot xPub switchup
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I added a new wallet to my BTCPayServer, but I did not add "-[taproot]" to the end of the xPub. I assume that it then was perceived as a Segwit ...
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Is there any HW wallet that works with Electrum without the need for installing anything?
Ledger Nano S Plus needs to you download Ledger Live and install the Bitcoin application in order to be able to open it with Electrum.
Is there any HW wallet that can be opened with Electrum directly, ...
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How to Generate P2SH Address from XPUB Ledger
I'm trying to Generate unused receiving Addresses for a Segwit P2SH wallet in my Ledger. I tried https://pypi.org/project/bitcoinlib/ but without success, the addresses weren't right.
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Ledger BTC wallets
I have made 3 transactions of BTC to my Ledger Nano S device using Ledger Live. For each of these 3 transactions new receiving address was created for transfer. Ledger claims that this is done because ...
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Does Ledger Nano S Have an xPub or a zPub for Bitcoin wallets?
{
"xpub": "tpub-big-long-key-that-starts-with-tpub",
"index": 1,
"freshAddressPath": "84'/1'/1'/0/0",
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"Do not buy hardware wallet from a 3rd party seller" security tip, does it apply if authorized in the official website?
"Do not buy hardware wallet from a 3rd party seller" It's a well-known security guideline for newbies. I wonder though, does it apply for 3rd party sellers that are listed on the official ...
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Are transactions from two separate bitcoin accounts on Ledger Nano S independent of each other?
John Doe creates two separate bitcoin accounts on a ledger nano s and funds the accounts from two separate sources. The first funding source is a known terrorist organization and the second funding ...
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Ledger Nano S - Do you use the same key to send & receive Bitcoin?
I have a just bought a Ledger Nano S and have put my Bitcoin onto it using one of the keys it generated. It actually generated 19 of them so I used the first one. My question is, if I want to load ...
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