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Topic: Be careful with Ledger Nano S and Mycelium mobile wallet (Read 618 times)

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I had just received a Ledger Nano S hardware wallet, and I started to test it's functions.
I've run into a problem, and after reading thru forums and reddit the problem is known (not really a problem but lack of feature). If I have read first and act afterwards, I could have saved myself from some hours of headache....
To cut the long story short:
Mycelium mobile wallet doesn't support Segwit type of addresses. If you start your Ledger Nano S on Chrome firtst, it suggests to create a Segwit type of bitcoin address, because it faster, cheaper, etc...
But, if you plan to use the Ledger with Mycelium mobile wallet, you should not choose the Segwit address, but the legacy one, because Mycelium doesn't recognize the segwit addresses on Ledger Nano S, only the legacy ones. You can work with the legacy addresses without any problem.
Just a word of warning, if someone is thinking in a similar setup.
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