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@ mike
2025-01-06 16:06:07
To use American vernacular, ya’ll gonna hate on me, but back when Ledger announced their Stax, I ordered one for delivery in 3 months. Two years later, about 3 months ago, I finally received it.
Because of their doxxing and seed grab policies I would no longer consider using it for any serious holdings, but my wife is starting to acquire her own stack of Bitcoin and so believing it was the iPOD of Bitcoin wallets, I gave it to her to use as her hardware wallet.
Because she was new to self custody I had already setup the ledger and I sat with her while she tried to use it.
She used her phone and the Ledger app to attempt to move Bitcoin from Revolut to the wallet.
Nothing worked, nothing.
The Ledger Stax needed updating, but would turn off in the middle of updating so would never finish, we gave up trying to do that.
We then tried to obtain an address to receive funds to, it offer 4 types of Bitcoin wallets Legacy, Segwit, Native Segwit and Taproot. But it didn’t explain them at all, meaning you had no idea which was which.
Then when it offered to verify the address the Stax got into a loop, which required me to do a physical reboot (long press power button).
At last we managed to verify an address, but this wasn’t displayed on the Stax as a QR code, an unbelievably obvious reason for having a epaper screen, instead having to use the iPhone to copy and paste the address between the Ledger Live app and Revolut.
When we did this, Revolut said there was an error with the address and to try again later.
I know you’re all going to mock me for attempting to use the Stax, but I had assumed up until yesterday that it at least had a good UI.
Boy, was I wrong