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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? This question was posed by Christopher Allen on Twitter.
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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 in any way?
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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 address on blockchain.info (the address you send BTC…
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How do Ledger Backups get stored?

Scenario 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, your wallet is back. Question My question is where…
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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" using those keys. (Though phrasing it that way is a…
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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 2FA can it ask for proof of whatever key path they…
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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 I'm trying to generate the same addresses on the…
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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 sounds very similar to what a private blockchain…
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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 made sure of my seed words. I was looking into a…
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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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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 about, I have heard like coinbase is currently not…
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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 will it take to transaction to be completed, but…
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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 trying to set it up as a wallet. When I start the…
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