The Daily LEO #274 Ledger Spooks Users, EU Approves MiCA
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Ledger’s new phrase recovery feature has users spooked
Ledger has introduced a new feature, sparking concerns among its users.
Ledger Recover is an ID-based subscription service enabling the retrieval of the secret recovery phrase. It applies to Ledger Nano X hardware wallets and will roll out under firmware release 2.2.1.
Up to $545 million in Bitcoin (BTC) was estimated to be lost in 2022 due to lost passwords or mistakes with the recovery phrase — demonstrating a real need to address the issue.
However, Ledger users have voiced strong objections to the feature as it requires...
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I think Ledger is done for good now. Cannot recommend it to anyone, anymore.
I agree, I only used ledger once and ended up not liking it as much as other hardware wallets. Now this next move for sure kills it in terms of me ever using it again.
Do you use any other apart from Ledger?
So much about regulators. The Financial Conduct Authority here in the UK are a private for profit company, trading without liability insurance 😑
Giving green light to many credit card and loan scams.
Crypto and smart contracts solves all these issues.
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Interesting, yeah it's always different hearing from people that actully live in the EU etc over just reading news.
Ledger is a big issue for crypto. If we cannot trust hardware, time to shut down crypto 😅
This is good for bitcoin as more people enter this market and this can be a good reason for the value to grow up.
Reputation is one of the parts that need a serious change and if leo team does it then it's going to be great. will look for more updates about it.