How to use your Ledger with Vialectrum

Viacoin
3 min readMar 20, 2018

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The latest version of Vialectrum supports Ledger hardware wallets. You can start using your Ledger hardware wallet with Vialectrum 3.1 by following these steps!

Step 1: Connect your Ledger hardware wallet to your computer. Open Vialectrum 3.1 and create a new wallet. Click ‘next’ after you’ve entered your preferred wallet name.

Step 1

Step 2: Select ‘Standard wallet’ and click ‘next’.

Step 2

Step 3: Select ‘Use a hardware device’ and click ‘Next’.

Step 3

Step 4: Select ‘An unnamed ledger [ledger, initialized] and click ‘Next’.

Step 4

Make sure your Ledger hardware wallet is unlocked or you will get the following error:

Error when your Ledger Nano S is unlocked

Step 5: Select ‘Legacy BIP44’ if you have a regular Viacoin wallet on your Ledger Nano S. Select ‘p2sh-segwit BIP49’ if you have a Segwit Viacoin wallet. Do not select ‘native-segwit BIP84’ (bech32) because it isn’t functional yet until Ledger has updated bech32 for Viacoin.

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Step 6: Keep the ‘Encrypt wallet file’ box ticked (recommended) or untick it and click ‘Next’.

Step 6

Vialectrum will start synchronizing your Ledger hardware wallet. Once it has synchronized you will have full access to the funds stored on your Ledger hardware wallet.

Ledger Nano S on Vialectrum 3.1

Sending a transaction: When you send a transaction you will have to confirm it on your Ledger hardware wallet.

Confirming a transaction

More information

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Viacoin Development Update -03/2018: https://medium.com/@viacoin/viacoin-development-update-03-2018-651b8c560fb7

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- The Viacoin Team

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