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Your Ledger Monero wallet will now be generated. You may have to hit confirm twice before it proceeds. This is virtually impossible when the private view key is not exported. That is, if your system gets compromised, the adversary will potentially be able to compromise your private view key as well, which is detrimental to privacy. If this option is not utilized, the device (Ledger) will scan blocks, which will be significantly slower. Exporting the private view key enables the client (on the computer - Monero v0.17.2.1) to scan blocks looking for transactions that belong to your wallet / address. First and foremost, your funds cannot be compromised with merely the private view key. The Ledger will ask whether you want to export the private view key or not. Make sure the Device name is set to Ledger Make sure the Create a new wallet from device option is selected. On the third page of the wizard, choose Create a new wallet from hardware device Lastly, Advanced mode allows you to customly set a remote node (in case you, for instance, want to connect to your own remote node). Note that you won't be able to properly use your wallet until the blockchain sync from scratch has been completed. Advanced mode also contains all features that were deemed as advanced by the developers (and thus were left out of the simple mode).

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In Advanced mode, you will perform the blockchain sync from scratch (which may take from 10-14 hours (with an SSD) to several days to complete (with an HDD) and requires approximately 75 GB of free disk space) without connecting to a remote node.

This mode is the default and is thus recommended by the developers for new users. Additionally, this mode has a simple interface as well. This allows you to immediately use the wallet while still eventually using your own (local) node (which is optimal for privacy and contributes to the strength and decentralization of the network). The wallet will subsequently switch to your own (local) node once it is fully synced.

In Simple mode (bootstrap) mode, the wallet automatically connects to a remote node whilst syncing your own (local) node in the background.

Besides, using a remote node does not contribute to the strength and decentralization of the network. However, it weakens your privacy insofar as the remote node will be able to see your IP address as well as associate any of your transactions with your IP address. This mode excludes the need for the blockchain sync and ensures you can immediately use the wallet.

In Simple mode mode, the GUI wallet will automatically connect to a remote node and have a simple interface.

There are three modes, namely Simple mode, Simple mode (bootstrap) and Advanced. On the second page of the wizard, you will have to select a mode. On the first page of the wizard, select your desired language. If it tries to open an existing wallet, click on the Cancel button. Open v0.17.2.1 monero-wallet-gui.app (Mac OS X) or monero-wallet-gui.exe (Windows) or monero-wallet-gui (Linux). If anything is OS specific I'll mention it explicitly.īrowse to the directory / folder GUI v0.17.2.1 is located. Now that we're sufficiently prepared, let's start! Note that the following instructions are general.

Ledger Live (the desktop application) should be closed. Your Ledger needs to be plugged in and the Ledger Monero app should be running.

#Ledger live desktop app install#

You need to install the Ledger Monero app. You need to run / use GUI v0.17.2.1, which can be found here, on the downloads page of the official website, or on Github. This guide assumes you have already initialized your Ledger device and thus generated a 24 word mnemonic seed.

In addition, we have to ensure that we're sufficiently prepared. To resolve this issue, I'd advise to use this guide.

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tar.bz2 file (Mac OS X)) you download from the downloads page of the official website.

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If you are using Windows or Mac OS X and run active AV (AntiVirus) software, the AV software will likely quarantine the binaries (i.e. The Ledger Monero App is available for both the Ledger Nano S and the Ledger Nano X.