Irgendwie lahm, dass das neue Update für LedgerLive verlangt, dass man seine hw wallet wieder verbindet.

This company seems to be doing everything AGAINST the interest of its customers.

Fake news.

Very sus wtf

True.
On the other hand, it is recommended to check in with your hw once in a while.
Recharging the battery also helps it live longer

Just so you know, using Ledger Live at all is entirely optional, and you can (and should) use Metamask, Electrum, etc. which all have the option to be used with a hw wallet.

There are privacy benefits to it; even if you are still confident in the security of your actual keys on your Ledger, the Ledger Live app itself sends out a good amount of analytics.

Yeahhh I don’t like that honestly

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Forcing you to connect to the HW wallet ensures your HW is running the latest firmware. Which means they want to make sure they have backdoors in as many devices as possible.

Or at least track how many of their devices are still in use.

These are all very dumb decisions.

So to keep my seed phrase safe long term I need to keep connecting my ledger to the pc?

That’s not supposed to happen right? You might have a fake LL installed, tread carefully.

Pretty sure your hardware device will still work without connecting the ledger live. Especially after the seed phrase recovery update, a lot of people are hesitant to update their hardware.

Are you sure that’s a real update? Sounds awfully scammy to me.

Updating LL does not require connecting the ledger device.

Hmm that’s not at all expected to happen. Are you saying that after the install all of your accounts were gone and that you had to add them all back using the device?

If so, that means your app configuration file somehow got removed or reset, though afaik you’re the first report of this happening with this update. Are you getting any error messages that might be relevant?

Usually you can even fully reinstall Ledger Live and as long as that app.json file stays in place it’ll remember all of your accounts.

Not sure what happened. If anyone else has their Ledger Live get reinitialized by the update definitely reply and let me know.

>The latest update to LedgerLive seems to require you to pair your hw device again in order to view your balances.

I am on latest Ledger Live version 2.66.0 and i did not need to pair my hw device again to view my balances.

I don’t think any Ledger Live update ever required me to pair my hw device again to view my balances.

That’s the way they extract your seed 😛 /s

Do you have any proof of this? I haven’t updated my ledger live in a while

Yeah i noticed yesterday :/ I’ve gotten rid of my ledger S and had to restore Ledger S Plus because with recovery seed and couldn’t send stuff without error message in both metamask and ledger live.. worked as soon as i went to help -> connect device -> ledger S Plus.

I was able to install the apps without doing that so don’t understand why it had to be done. I have owned my first ledger since ’16 i believe, or even earlier. I’ve accepted all the shit like „get 20$ if you invite a friend and reveal your identity in the process“ and shit like ledger card with the same intention.

Now I can’t even use it to manage third party wallet apps without the process described in the first paragraph!?

I’m moving my funds away from ledger sadly. If it wasnt already too much before it sure is now..

Why do y’all keep doing updates and messing with your ledger ? Put your crypto on it and leave it alone

Don’t update and move your keys off ledger before it’s too late. They haven’t listened to their customer base and their code is a “trust me bro” kinda thing after adding code to manage keys. But it is all opt-in. “Trust me bro.”

Hey – you do not need to connect your Ledger device to the Ledger Live app to update app or view your balances. When a new version of Ledger Live is available, it will automatically download and install once you close the app. This is a feature designed to keep your Ledger Live up to date with the latest features and security enhancements. The latest version as of August 17, 2023, is Ledger Live 2.66.

If you’re facing issue viewing your balances with the latest app then please let us know more so that we can look into this for you.