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>Question 1: I believe that understand that when I reseed the blockchain.info wallet onto the ledger nano s, then more or less, I have created a copy of access to the coins that I see through the blockchain.info wallet through the ledger. So does that mean that after I reseed the ledger nano s, then I am going to be able to see the available BTC both through the blockchain.info wallet and ledger nano s wallet?
Yes.
>or does that mean that once I reseed the private keys to the ledger nano s wallet, then I will no longer be able to see them through the blockchain.info wallet?
No.
>Question 2: You said that once I reseed the ledger nano s wallet, I should be able to see both the BTC and the BCH through the ledger nano s wallet software, and before I split them, they will be under the same private key;
Yes. But you'll have to change between BCT and BCH blockchains (in Chrome app) to see the respective balances. fwiw, the app only knows/references public keys.
>however, after I split them they will each have their own new private keys?
If you move BCH to a new address (I'd use the "Split" wallet for this) then that BHC will be associated with a new private/public key pair, yes. But the BTC will still remain where it was (i.e. still be associated with the old private/public key pair - which may not be desired if your worry about replay). Unless you also move it.
>So, after I split the BTC and BCH, the wallet of the old private keys will become emptied of either BTC or BCH.. and the BTC and the BCH that was previously available in old wallet will each have new and separate private keys and the old wallet will be completely empty of BTC and BCH -
Again, moving BCH and BTC are separate actions as they occur with separate transactions on separate blockchains. You can move one, the other, both or neither ;-)
>Question 3) assuming that the old wallet is completely empty of BTC and BCH, I should still be able to use those old private keys in that "empty" old wallet to claim other air drops that had taken place before the August 1 forking (in which I had bitcoins under those private keys), such as clams, steller or byteball?
I can't speak with authority beyond the BCH situation, but the notion in this case is simply that the ledger (blockchain) was cloned at a particular moment in time, and all balances duplicated on the new chain. So if a similar action was taken to create another "clone" at a time when you had a balance in an address, I'd assume this would be represented on the new new chain.
[Edit: I just checked on the Stellar give away and since "June 26, 2017: We took a snapshot of the blockchain at the first block mined after midnight on June 26th (UTC/GMT). This snapshot will record the coin balances of all bitcoin accounts at that time." my read is that if you had a balance then on a bitcoin address for which you control the private key, you should be able to follow their process to verify and make your claim before Aug 27.]
As some folks may recall, I had been planning to reseed my blockchain.info wallet into a newly purchased ledger nano s, and then let the ledger nano s perform the coin splitting for me.. seems to be less risk to entrust such to ledger nano s wallet software (since they are already a trusted name in bitcoin).
Setting up the ledger nano s did not seem too bad. It can be set up as a new device or to restore an existing wallet. I had to make sure that I had access to the ledger nano s chrome extension for the ledger manager and the ledger bitcoin wallet - two separate pages to access managing the ledger and then being able to see the wallets that are installed on the actual ledger nano s device.
I made sure that I had the correct firmware on the ledger nano s, which was firm ware version 1.3.1.. and then I also made sure that there was a bitcoin wallet and a bcash wallet on the ledger nano s. those wallets were version 1.8.1 and 1.1.8 respectively. After I played around a bit with the nano s, then I decided to erase it and to start over by setting the nano s up as a restoration device.
I went to my blockchain.info wallet, and I selected the create a back up feature, which provided 12 seed words that I carefully wrote down.
I then returned to the ledger nano s, and as I was setting it up as a restore device, it walked me through the screens and I input my 12 seed words. I then installed the bitcoin wallet and the Bcash wallet on the nano s from the ledger manager (chrome extension). Then I went to the bitcoin wallet window (chrome window) to attempt to see my bitcoins, and it did not show all of my bitcoin addresses. It showed only about 11 bitcoin addresses.
By the way, currently my blockchain.info wallet has 61 bitcoin addresses. There are 33 addresses with some bitcoin balances, and there are 24 addresses with zero balance and there are 4 import addresses with zero balance (28 total with zero bitcoin balance and 33 with bitcoin balances).
The ledger nano s showed 11 out of the 57 addresses (per instructions from blockchain.info I did not expect it to show the 4 imported addresses). One of those 11 addresses had bitcoins in it, and the other 10 addresses had no bitcoins. Since this was a backup, all of the addresses and coins still completely showed and were accessible through my blockchain.info wallet. So I was not worried about losing my bitcoins at this point because I could still see them completely accessible through my blockchain.info wallet.
By the way, through the ledger bitcoin wallet I could access either the bitcoin wallet on the ledger or the bcash wallet on the ledger, and the ledger bcash wallet did show that my available bitcoin address had an equal number of bcash in that address.. so recognizing the bcash did not seem to be any kind of problem for the one bitcoin address that that the ledger nano s showed in its incomplete system of 11 out of 57 bitcoin addresses.
My question is whether anyone knows a better way in which I could set up my ledger nano s in order that it will be able to see all 57 of my regular bitcoin addresses that are available in my blockchain.info wallet. I already wrote twice to Ledger support, and so far they are not answering my requests for assistance. I wrote to blockchain.info and they said that it could be an issue with the ledger nano s wallet software. I tried the same reseeding thing by loading Electrum 2.9.0 with my 12 reseed words (I loaded 2.9.3, and it kept crashing on me, so I reverted to 2.9.0.), and Electrum could not see all my addresses either. The Electrum wallet only showed about 15 empty bitcoin addresses.
Anyone have any ideas or possible resources towards which they could point me? By the way, the blockchain.info rep said that he had reseeded a trezor and it worked fine, so maybe I have to buy a trezor in order to attempt my allegedly "easy" splitting of my BCH?
