Trezor - I love you!
Yesterday it happened also to me - I was in a hurry and send BTC to a BCH address. How? I recently did a BCH transaction on my Trezor and so the preset was still BCH. Without double checking I just looked up in my Trezor a new address to send some BTC from an exchange to without seeing all those warnings they implemented.
I was so frustrated I can't tell you. I really was convinced "this is it" - those btc are lost forever. I just turned off my computer and went to bed. Today I started installing my brand new Trezor Model T and thought I give it a try and start researching for a solution for "BTC send to BCH Trezor address".
Already after a few minutes I found out that Trezor is even offering a recovering tool for those mistakes. Here is the link for those of you who might need it sometime in the future:
https://trezor.io/recover-coins/
I was still convinced that this tool will work for anything but my problem but I should be wrong. I just selected the problem "BTC send to BCH" and connect the corresponding Trezor (my old one) and there they were. I just had to send them to an BTC address and everything was fine again.
So even with the market being in the red this is quite a happy day to celebrate!
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For future viewers: price of bitcoin at the moment of posting is 7481.00USD
Wow, I did not know this. I can imagine you feel really relieved! :-)
Oh yes - I am ;-)
Having a hardware wallet is probably a must for people who owns a good amount of crypto. They are cheap and easy to use.
Do you think trezor is better than ledger?
Not really - I think it doesn't matter so much. That said I don't know if ledger has such a recovery tool as Trezor does. I hope they do though and probably they have.
Aren’t hardware wallets the most secure way to protect crypto?
Oh man!!! I would be so worried that they would be lost to!!! Wow! Glad you got them back! That would suck so much if they just floated off the cypto land, never to be seen again!
Good job Trezor!
Have a good day! :)
That's good to hear, it's time for me to pick up this or a Nano. Need to look at them both for my needs.
Wow, this was very sharp @famunger, but it happened to me once as well, but that time I was a newlbie on crypto and the amount was not that much high, but I was angry on myself too. I have not the trader, but the Ledger, I am interpreting if Ledger have this too for his users...?