Questions tagged [ledger-hardware-wallet]

Ledger is a popular hardware wallet manufacturer.

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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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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 of the…
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Ledger Nano X stuck in loop before being initialized

So I just unboxed my Nano X direct from Ledger. I started the device and it said download Ledger Live. So it set it down to go look for my phone. The thing was, I had trouble finding my phone and by the time I did that, the Nano screen seemed to…
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Multiple private keys on ledger devices

I have read Ledger devices can handle multiple "applications". I suppose an application means a cryptocurrency (btc, eth, etc.). Is there a private key for each application or is it a single private key for all applications ? Thanks
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Chain Code from Ledger Nano S

The question is basically in the title. Can I (or it is possible to) extract the chain code from a ledger nano s device? It doesn't have to be the Master Chain Code. Any of them will do.
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Understanding how initializing the Ledger Bitcoin hardware wallet works

One can find the Ledger Bitcoin source code here: https://github.com/LedgerHQ/app-bitcoin I am trying to understand how a Ledger app account is initialized or restored. Can someone point me to another 'official' project, which is communicating with…
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Maidsafecoin sent to Ledger Nano S

I sent maidsafecoin to a segwit Bitcoin address generated by my Ledger Nano S. My understanding is the coin is safe at the address and the Nano recorded the transaction as a very small amount of btc. I have the bitcoin address. Can I extract the…