Advice -Ledger Nano and Ledger Nano S Plus on new laptop?

[BBitcoin92]

Hi ALL

I have an old Ladger Nano (one that you have to delete coins in order to add/use others beacuse of memory limitation).

I also have a new Ledger Nano S Plus that is capable of holding all coins i currently have.

I am setting up a new laptop and wondered on how to proceed to get all my coins onto the new wallet and ditch the old Nano.

I have installed Ledger Wallet on my laptop and its asking what do i want to add.

I presume coins are all linked to the actual hardware and in order to transfer everyting i would have to SEND coins to the new wallet address it creates?

This will also incur transfer fees etc, Or is there a better way?

Also is it worth keeping the old Nano and just keep BTC on it as its my main coin i have.

Thanks in advance.

[OmegaStarScream]

Use the seedphrase from the old device into the new one (as if you were restoring a wallet) if you want to avoid paying any transfer fees.

Although, if I were you, I would rather transfer the funds to a newly generated wallet, just in case since you had the old wallet for all of these years.

[Charles-Tim]

Although, if I were you, I would rather transfer the funds to a newly generated wallet, just in case since you had the old wallet for all of these years.

I do not think to generate a new seed phrase is necessary because the old and the new wallet is Ledger Nano while the new Ledger Nano is also not open source as its secure element is completely close source just as the old wallet.

If ithe new wallet is an open source wallet, it would have been better to send all the coins to the address or addresses generated on the new wallet which is open source.

But it is Ledger to Ledger Nano close source wallet.

[bitmover]

Hi ALL

I have an old Ladger Nano (one that you have to delete coins in order to add/use others beacuse of memory limitation).

I also have a new Ledger Nano S Plus that is capable of holding all coins i currently have.

I am setting up a new laptop and wondered on how to proceed to get all my coins onto the new wallet and ditch the old Nano.

I have installed Ledger Wallet on my laptop and its asking what do i want to add.

I presume coins are all linked to the actual hardware and in order to transfer everyting i would have to SEND coins to the new wallet address it creates?

This will also incur transfer fees etc, Or is there a better way?

Also is it worth keeping the old Nano and just keep BTC on it as its my main coin i have.

Thanks in advance.

I have the same situation. I have an old ledger nano, and I just bought a new computer.

I just installed Electrum and clicked the hardware wallet option, and my coins just appeared. Like this:

https://support.ledger.com/article/115005161925-zd

If you want you can install ledger live as well an sync there as well.

About your coins: do not transfer anything. You can just restore from seed in your new device. Or keep install/uninstall coins, it takes literally 30 seconds.

Use the seedphrase from the old device into the new one (as if you were restoring a wallet) if you want to avoid paying any transfer fees.

Although, if I were you, I would rather transfer the funds to a newly generated wallet, just in case since you had the old wallet for all of these years.

No need for that. If his seed wasn't exposed, he can just use the old seed in the new device.
I wouldn't recommend. If the old device still works, he can use it normally.

If the device ever breaks, he can restore from seed in the new one.

The old device is better because it doesn't support the online seed feature (https://www.ledger.com/academy/what-is-ledger-recover), which isn't safe.

[Lucius]

@BBitcoin92, my advice is to buy a hardware wallet from another manufacturer, considering that Ledger has lost all credibility over the years, whether it is due to the leakage of their customers' data (several times), or the fact that it is possible to extract seeds from their devices for the purpose of storing backups with third parties. Regardless of the fact that they claim that this is not possible on older models, the very fact that it is possible at all is a sign for great caution.