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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
Before we start, first two notes:
The Ledger Monero App is available for both the Ledger Nano S and the Ledger Nano X.
If you are using Windows or Mac OS X and run active AV (AntiVirus) software, ...
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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI (monero-wallet-cli)?
Windows
We first have to ensure that we're sufficiently prepared. This entails the following:
This guide assumes you have already initialized your Ledger wallet and thus generated a 24 word mnemonic ...
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What is the best hardware wallet for Monero?
Currently, there are not any hardware wallets with Monero compatibility. Ledger and Trezor have both expressed interest in adding Monero support but nothing is forthcoming, at least that is public ...
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What is the best hardware wallet for Monero?
Ledger say Monero is on their roadmap in their FAQ http://support.ledgerwallet.com/knowledge_base/topics/general-ledger-nano-s-faq
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Which existing hardware wallets have expressed an interest in adding Monero support?
The Trezor code will be made open source when NoodleDoodle thinks it is ready. Currently it is only suitable for testing with very small amounts of Monero because until it is open-souce, it cannot be ...
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How do I restore / recreate my Ledger Monero wallet?
I've noticed some confusion lately on how to restore one's Ledger Monero wallet. I have therefore written this guide.
In case you have also lost (access to) your Ledger device, you first have to ...
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How do I, on Linux, generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI and subsequently use it in the GUI?
The GUI is now able to directly generate a Ledger Monero wallet. Thus, please see this Q&A:
How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
We first have to ensure ...
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If you create a Bitcoin wallet with Trezor first, could you use the private key to create a Monero wallet using NoodleDoodle's firmware?
Installing a new firmware on a Trezor, it won't be possible to import private keys.
Because of the way Hierarchical Deterministic wallets work, a new seed and wallet will be created (with its own set ...
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When will KeepKey support Monero?
This was discussed in the dev meeting held on 2016-08-28:
fluffypony: NoodleDoodle: do you want to talk about Trezor at all?
NoodleDoodle: Sure :P
fluffypony: yay, take it away
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Clarification on the Monero Trezor binaries 'passphrase'
I also agree, it is the same. Adding a password makes a new private seed different from the 12 or 24 word base seed.
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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
dEBRUYNE's guide is comprehensive but for Windows 7 users you may run into an error along the lines of:
failed to generate new wallet: Fail SCard API : (-2146435026) 0x8010002E Device=0, hCard=0, ...
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What is the best hardware wallet for Monero?
A bit late to the party, but here is the Monero entry in Ledger's roadmap: https://trello.com/c/wsK0myEm/52-monero-support
Apparently (if you follow the last reddit link) a first alpha release is ...
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Support for a Ledger Nano S Recovery Plan B?
The original answer is found at https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-app-monero/tree/master/tools/python.
For OSX hosts, to complement the ledger-app-monero documentation, the Homebrew package ...
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How do I generate a Trezor Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
Before we start, first two notes:
Using the official GUI in conjunction with a Trezor device is only available for the Trezor model T.
If you are using Windows or Mac OS X and run active AV (...
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How do I generate a Trezor Monero wallet with the CLI (monero-wallet-cli)?
Note that Monero support is currently only available for the model T.
Windows / Linux / Mac OS X
We first have to ensure that we're sufficiently prepared. This entails the following:
This guide ...
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How do I, on Mac OS X, generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI and subsequently use it in the GUI?
The GUI is now able to directly generate a Ledger Monero wallet. Thus, please see this Q&A:
How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
We first have to ensure ...
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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
I had some initial issues/errors getting Monero GUI v0.14.0.0 working with the Monero app on a Ledger Nano S, specifically creating a new hardware wallet on the Nano S. Started with errors that ...
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Can you use the same 24 word seed from other wallets like ledger nano s to generate a monero address?
The list of English words available to create a bitcoin seed is not the same as the list of English words available to create a monero seed.
For example, the first few words of the former are "...
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Maximizing privacy when dealing with pre RingCT outputs
Another solution may be to use a new command sweep_single that I proposed recently (#2634). This allows you to spend each one of your pre-RingCT outputs individually, preventing inferences of real ...
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Maximizing privacy when dealing with pre RingCT outputs
I'd do a sweep_all with a bigger ringsize to merge them all in one RCT output, followed by a couple of sweep_all to yourself (AKA "churn") with default ringsize at random intervals.
You can send that ...
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How do I, on Windows, generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI and subsequently use it in the GUI?
The GUI is now able to directly generate a Ledger Monero wallet. Thus, please see this Q&A:
How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
We first have to ensure ...
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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI (monero-wallet-cli)?
Adding a small guide for Manjaro Linux users here (and possibly other Arch-based systems as well) as the process is a bit different than how it is explained in:
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/blue-app-...
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Can you use the same 24 word seed from other wallets like ledger nano s to generate a monero address?
The short answer is Yes, but until Monero wallet hardware support is out of alpha testing and is supported by two or more wallets consistently the answer to this question is a work-in-progress.
For ...
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How do I generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the GUI (monero-wallet-gui)?
Adding a small guide for Manjaro Linux users here (and possibly other Arch-based systems as well) as the process is a bit different than how it is explained in:
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/blue-app-...
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Is it true that ledger nano s can only store monero and one other coin?
I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero but now there's no more space. So, well, it's 3 at least.
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Should I use a hardware wallet?
In it's simplest form, a hardware wallet is for holding your private keys on a non-internet connected device. It is also designed to be easy to use with your internet connected machine whereby it can ...
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How do I, on Linux, generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI and subsequently use it in the GUI?
On Fedora, to avoid errors like:
Fail SCard API : (2148532270) Service not available. Device=0,
hCard=0, hContext=0
Fail SCard API : (2148532227) Invalid handle. Device=0, hCard=0,
hContext=...
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How do I, on Linux, generate a Ledger Monero wallet with the CLI and subsequently use it in the GUI?
On Ubuntu make sure you have the following dependencies installed
apt-get install pcsc-tools libpcsclite1 pcscd
otherwise you get an error similar to this:
Error: failed to generate new wallet: ...
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Are there any plans to add Hardware Wallet support to the core Monero software?
Ledger Wallet is currently working on a hardware wallet. The subreddit /r/monero links to it in the side bar, and the github page LedgerHQ/blue-app-monero has some of the code that will make it up.
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