Questions tagged [ledger-hardware-wallet]
Ledger is a popular hardware wallet manufacturer.
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Ledger Live:Risks with private keys by downloading any other app except BTC
If quantum computers will be able to crack private keys via public addresses with BTC,it's defence is double hashed addresses but not eth for example... would that mean that any other chains with ...
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Do taproot addresses use a new private key in Ledger Live?
Are all Bitcoin receiving addresses in Ledger Live for like legacy, segwit and taproot? Are they the hashed public address or the public address? I know for segwit that ledger generates new addresses ...
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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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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.
This is from my ...
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Hardware wallet how do I generate device master fingerprint?
How do I generate Master fingerprint from the ledger wallet? Below is showing 43457466, how do I get to this value? I'm trying to generate the same fingerprint in Javascript. I'm using this package ...
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Specter wallet fails to detect Ledger Nano S+ on Ubuntu 22.04
Bitcoin Core 23.0 is running on machine A.
Specter 1.13.0-pre5 is running on machine B, which has Ubuntu 22.04 installed.
These machines are on the same local network.
Ledger Nano S+ is plugged into ...
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Is passphrase (the 25th word) using open source algorithms? Can I recover the passphrase on any hardware wallets?
Many hardware wallets provide the passphrase function that allows you to protect your assets even if your 24 seed phrases are compromised. But I worry that the different companies use different ...
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How to Properly Use a Hardware Wallet and Recover My Coins if I Forget it Somwhere?
A noob in the bitcoin world, and trying to get in by diversifying some of my assets into bitcoin. My apologies if the question sounds too ignorant or basic. I was just watching this video for ...
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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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Are hardware wallet seeds cross compatible over all brands and even software wallets?
I had a discussion today and I'm really confused. What I though is happening with each hardware wallet is this:
Seed (BIP39) 1 --> HW Wallet (ledger) --> chip1 + seed = private key 1
Seed (...
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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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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",
"id": "libcore:1:...
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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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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 ...
