Accidentally sent USDT to BTC ledger wallet [RECOVERED YAYY!!]

[cryptocolegio]

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I accidentally sent USDT to a BTC ledger wallet. Now I'm following this guide https://jochen-hoenicke.de/crypto/omni/ and have figured out the gist of it but can't seem to get the transaction to work upon sending it. Has anyone encounter this error message before?

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[BitMaxz]

Try this method.

- First, open your electrum wallet then right click the bitcoin address where you accidentally sent your USDT.
- After that paste it to notepad temporary because we will use this privkey to create a wallet.
- Now go to http://omniwallet.org/
- And then create a wallet and fill all needed. (If you already have an account just ignore this.)
- Now click your "my wallet" then "my address" then "add an address" then import address with private key then paste your private key.

Now you should find your USDT in your wallet and you can send it again to other USDT wallets.  

[cryptocolegio]

Thank you Bitmaxz. Unfortunately, the wallet is a BTC ledger nano address so I don't have the priv key.

[TryNinja]

Thank you Bitmaxz. Unfortunately, the wallet is a BTC ledger nano address so I don't have the priv key.

You can get its private keys from the backup seed. The problem is that this will “break” your hardware wallet level of security, so you will have to stop using this wallet+seed and create a new one directly from your Nano S.

1. Move all your coins to a new safe wallet;
2. Follow this article to get your private key: https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005297709-Export-your-accounts
3. Import the private key related to the address you sent the USDT in the Omni wallet as explained above.


P.S: doing this is a risk to your Nano S wallet as your seed can be stolen if your computer is infected. Always make sure to do this is a safe environment and to always create a new isolated wallet from your hardware wallet after you’re done.

[cryptocolegio]

Noted. Thank you!!! Will try this!

[cryptocolegio]

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IT WORKED!

Took many hours over 3 days to finally figured it out:

1. I had to figure out the derivative path of the particular BTC wallet where my usdt fund was stuck (this took me forever).

2. Got the private key for the particular BTC wallet address on my Ledger Nano using https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005297709-Export-your-accounts

3. Then I tried to use the private key to gain access to the wallet but wtf a different wallet address showed up instead. After researching and giving up and continuing, I finally understood that a single private key could have more than 1 address and in my case, the wallet I wanted to gain access to (where my usdt was stuck) is a segwit address that starts with a 3 and the one that was showing up differently is a legacy address that starts with 1.

Knowing this, I started researching again and found https://github.com/OmniLayer/omniwallet/wiki/Recovering-funds-from-a-Segwit-Address
If I had found this article sooner, it would have saved me TONS of hours. With this guide, I was able to pinpoint the exact wallet I wanted.

4. Then I simply followed the instructions in https://jochen-hoenicke.de/crypto/omni/

CHEERS TO YOU ALL AMAZING PEOPLE!!!