Manual
Unverified addresses
Even if Ledger Live can provide receiving addresses without a Ledger device, these
addresses provide suboptimal security. Choosing to use unverified addresses comes at
your own risk.
Learn more
● Learn how to secure your PIN code and recovery phrase.
● Check the advanced security features supported by Ledger devices.
● Contact Ledger Support when in doubt.
Receive mining proceeds
Participants in mining activities may want to securely store their mining proceeds by
using a Ledger device. This article explains why sending a large amount of small
transactions to a hardware wallet is troublesome, offers potential solutions and
provides instructions on how to properly send mining proceeds to an address
controlled by your Ledger device.
Failing to follow these instructions may lead to your funds becoming inaccessible on a
Ledger device.
Receiving many small transactions is troublesome
Receiving a large number of small payments, or dust payments, on an address controlled
by your hardware wallet causes:
● the saturation of the synchronization of your Blockchain transactions; and
● an extremely long duration of transaction construction or validation.
Therefore, hardware wallets are not directly suited for receiving a large amount of small
transactions, such as the proceeds of mining activities.
Imagine that you have received 1,000 payments of 0.001 BTC and that you want to
spend the total of 1 BTC. The secure chip in the hardware wallet will then have to
construct a transaction of 1,000 inputs and sign each single input. This might take a few
hours or might not succeed at all, since the chip may overheat or make a computation
error.
If you've received a lot of small payments
If you have already sent a large number of small payments to your hardware wallet:
● Try to consolidate your coins by sending a few larger payments to yourself. For
example, if you have received 1,000 times 0.001 BTC, consolidate these inputs by
sending 0.1 BTC to yourself and repeat this 10 times.
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