I was just teaching this yesterday to my students. Your wallet is not tied to the software or the device. You can just load bluewallet on your phone, import the seeds and gain access to your funds. Just know that they're now exposed to a hot wallet so it's best to send the coins to another cold storage wallet.
While I don't recommend ledger, the issue this guy had can happen to any device and it will keep happening as years go by.
My advice would be to spin up a samourai or other wallet, enter keys and confirm the funds are fine. Then slap yourself for ever buying a ledger. Then get a decent hardware wallet like a coldcard or trezor and load that up with a NEW private key.
Nonsense. Coldcards get bricked all the time. This problem could happen to any hardware wallet. But I don't think my trezor stops me from using it without an update, it depends on the specific program.
the seed is the keys, i'm not understanding what the problem is.
if you are getting a ledger first thing it asks you to do is write down 24 words and those are the seed inside it and can be entered into another wallet and voila wallet.
but maybe not if there is shitcoins involved, but as far as i know that seed is used with a standard bitcoin BIP whatever it is HD wallet.
There is no problem, the user is just confused. You're right you just load the seed words in a other wallet.
i have one of these stupid things and the keys you are asked to write down before you first use them.
those 24 words can make your wallet appear almost anywhere else.
how does this person not know this?
