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How to know the derivation paths used by hardware wallets?
by
atwd
on 04/12/2021, 12:35:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (4) ,o_e_l_e_o (4)
Hi all,

I have 3 hardware wallets:
D'CENT
Ellipal
Safepal

I imported the same 24 word seed phrase in all of them.

I got the same legacy address from all of them, but the segwit addresses are different. It looks like they're using a different derivation path.

I tried to import the same seed phrase also in a old ledger nano s and in this case I got a different segwit address and even a different legacy address.

We're not talking about just a different address, we're talking about different wallets because I couldn't recover my balance in the different wallets, so they are clearly using a different derivation path.

For reference, with Ethereum I had no problem: the same address on all the hardware wallets.


In this situation I'm forced to use the legacy address, also, I'm afraid if all these 3 companies will go out of business, it will be hard to recover my btc if I don't know the derivation path the used and other wallets seem to no use the same.