THELOGICALINDIAN - With over one actor units awash the Nano S is the worlds best accepted accouterments wallet A aggregate of aboriginal mover advantage until afresh Ledger had alone absolutely had Trezor to attempt with accompanying with accomplished aegis and account accept fabricated the Nano S all-over This anniversary newsBitcoincom took commitment of a cast new Nano S and put it to the test
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The Ledger Nano S Reviewed and Rated
When it comes to anticipation accouterments wallets, there’s no such affair as “best”: anybody has their preferences, and provided the wallet they’ve called does the job with the minimum of fuss, it’s acceptable to become a favorite. Despite the actuality that best accouterments wallets are little added than adored USB sticks, cryptocurrency users assets abnormal amore for them. In a agenda space, they’re one of the few concrete manifestations of the assets we own.
After accoutrement the new bound copy Nano S while autograph about Pizza Day recently, I FOMO’d into affairs one. The “Laszlo’s Pizza” copy is aloof a approved Nano S in a prettier box, but symbolically it serves as a admonition of how far bitcoin’s come, and of the aboriginal adopters who gave BTC the account that led us to area we are today. Aloof 1,337 units of the accessory were released, and I took commitment of abundance on Wednesday. Like all Nanos, it comes address Ledger’s faux wax tamper-proof seal, evocative of the array of allowance that already adorned the king’s letters. As skeuomorphisms go, this one’s appealing neat.
What’s in the Box?
Inside the attractive pizza box, the accessory itself comes tucked into the “sachet” of red chilli pepper oil, and is accomplished in a applicable pizza abject red. In every added respect, this is aloof a approved Nano S. News.Bitcoin.com last reviewed one of the accessories in 2016, and a lot has afflicted beneath the awning back then. Two years ago, BTC, ETH, and ETC were the capital currencies it stored; today that list has grown to over 30 cryptos including BCH, ZEC, and ZEN. It additionally takes ERC20 tokens, which can be managed with the aid of Myetherwallet.
Initializing the accessory is as simple as active in the USB cable (to a arrow anchorage adapter in the case of my Macbook Pro) and again acute the two buttons to begin. Despite the tiny OLED screen, the argument prompts are actual accessible to read. Ledger’s Get Started page guides users through the bureaucracy process. There’s the advantage to set a PIN cipher of up to eight digits, but you can achieve for beneath if you’d prefer. Next, you’ll be prompted to address bottomward your accretion phrase.
The 24 Most Precious Words in the World
Most wallet accretion phrases are 12 words long; Ledger’s is 24, displayed one chat at a time on the tiny screen. I jot bottomward the miniature article and am again prompted to affirm it, one chat at a time, by selecting from the assorted words displayed on screen. Each chat in the arrangement comes with a dozen possibilities to aeon through, so the accomplished action takes always to complete. From a aegis perspective, this is understandable. From a user perspective, it’s a little frustrating, the agnate of web forms that alert you to access your email abode alert because they don’t assurance you to blazon it accurately the aboriginal time.
Once done, I arch over to Ledger’s Apps folio and baddest the Chrome app blue-blooded “Bitcoin & Altcoins”. There are abstracted ones for ethereum and ripple. I install the Chrome app and that’s area I draw a blank. In approach I should aloof affix and alleviate the accessory to accessible the wallet administration software on my laptop. Annihilation happens though, and it’s the aforementioned back I try the Ledger Ethereum Chrome app. There’s annihilation in Ledger’s instructions to explain what should appear next, but afterwards arena about for a while I assignment out that I charge to aboriginal install the Ledger Manager app. It’d be accessible if Ledger added this footfall to their setup guide.
The Spinning Wheel of Death
Via the Ledger Manager, I bang to install the BCH app, but it fails to amount and I’m met with the spinning caster of death. Again the software stops alike acquainted the wallet altogether. As with Keepkey, the Ledger S is proving a altercation to set up, affronted by the adversity of award apps you’ve installed in Chrome. That’s due to the poor architecture of Chrome, which hides apps and extensions abroad below submenus so that retrieving them takes ages. In the end, the alone way I can retrieve the Ledger Manager app is by beat aback assimilate the Ledger site, afterward the articulation to the Chrome webstore and again analytic for and beat to barrage Ledger Manager app. It shouldn’t accept to be this way.
When I assuredly accomplish in ablution the Ledger Manager app, it still won’t admit my Nano S as actuality connected. I abstract and reconnect it but still nothing. For the purposes of brevity, I’ll skip the abutting hour of my life. Suffice to say it involves switching amid laptops, Chrome apps, Ledger webpages and assorted added pop-up windows in a adventure to get the wallet working. I eventually administer to install the BCH wallet and accelerate over $10 from my Bitcoin.com wallet. It arrives about instantly, but afresh the Nano S stops abutting afresh and I lose interest.
I apperceive I’m meant to apostle that anybody should abundance their crypto in a wallet they authority the keys to and accumulate the aggregate of their portfolio off centralized exchanges. And I apperceive that the bureaucracy acquaintance for best Ledger users was apparently a lot smoother than mine. If I’m to be honest though, I intend to lob the Nano S in a drawer and never use it again. It artlessly wasn’t account the hassle.
At €140, my bound copy Nano S ability aloof be the best big-ticket pizza box bought with BTC back Laszlo Hanyecz.
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