Ledger wallet bitcoin not opening
But it might be one of the biggest problems of crypto, that there are so many things that could go wrong and lead to loosing your coins. I had the problem not with the wallet, but my financial data on my drive.
I knew how you feel Thank you very much. I have same problem and I will try yor steps. If it works I will appreciate to you I feel for you mate: And happy you have got access to your assets again. By the way what is the safest ever way to hold you assets long term? Is it paper wallet or some other option? Thanks, harware-wallets are usually one of the safest ways to keep your assets safe. Just make sure that you have your seed phrase at a very safe place and you even would be able to restore your wallets, when you loose or destroy the hardware-wallet.
When you want to use paper-wallets, you have to make sure that the paper-wallet is generated on a machine that never had any access to the internet. Otherwise someone could be able to intercept the private key. Ok, i get it. My main concern what happens if the hardware wallet gets destroyed or malfunctions.
So you can just restore it as i understand now on a new one you purchase with the phrase. And what about a mobile app wallet like Jaxx? Thank you for your explanation shortcut.
Exactly, you can always restore your funds unsing the backup-phrase. My ledger uses a word phrase. Jaxx wallets can also be restored using a word backup phrase. The main difference is the fact, that your mobile phone is often connected to the internet and installing apps may potentially give hackers access to your private keys. Here is a good overview about existing hardware-wallets.
The funds on the ledger wallet always seemed to be safe, but due to the recent Bitcoin hardfork and Segwit activation, they had to update the Chrome apps very fast. That led to some bugs, I guess. Dear investors, yesterday I had some strange issues regarding my Ledger Nano S hardware-wallet.
I checked the Ledger knowledge base and found some tips to solve this: When opening the Litecoin wallet I ended up being on a "Bitcoin Test" - Blockchain and the same thing happened when I was trying to open the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash wallets.
I was very short before heart attack and opened up the support form on the Ledger-site, but what I read there wasn't so funny either: Relieve I instantly felt a great relieve when I noticed, that I wasn't the only one having exactly the same issue.
All I had to do was manually updating the Chrome extension to Version 1. TA-DA everything worked as expected. I am able to access my Litecoin-, Bitcoin- and all the other wallets again! Have a safe weekend everybody! Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post. In the chome webstore I found following support request made about 2 hours ago: Today I also posted a support request in the Chrome webstore as I do not get any reply: Fingers crossed, that your LTC can be traced and returned very soon.
Yes I still have hope. OMG that must have been a nightmare, scary as hell. Happy you worked it out! Hmm i have my litcoins on poloniex and price is going up. You have to be triple careful with everything you do in cryptoland. Yes just a one click and we are done. So we should be very careful to make that single click. This is excellent news that proves the effectiveness of these wallets. Ledger assured users at first that the bug would be fixed within a matter of hours, but soon followed it with another announcement stating that the bug will likely take longer to get fixed:.
The resync of the nodes may take more time than expected. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will post an update when we have a more precise ETA. He told Reddit users:. The team is still investigating. This is not the first time that Ledger has been having trouble. Some users are even baffled that why does Ledger simply not downgrade Bitcoin-ABC, if the issue is taking so long to fix. Many users are ending up on Google trying to figure out what is wrong with their wallet.
As a result of Bitcoin Cash infrastructure changes, Ledger software was temporarily unable to acquire balance and transaction information from the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.
The Ledger team is working on a fix, and in the meantime customers can install the Electron Cash application on their Ledger device in order to transact with BCH. We apologise for any inconvenience, and customers do not need to take any action. Once the update is released, BCH balances will be updated automatically. Meanwhile, your Bitcoin Cash is safe. Published April 10, — April 10, —