Setup Ledger Live to Umbrel

Ledger live app is total crap. Stop using it.
Ledger HW should be used together with desktop apps like Electrum, Specter or Sparrow.
All these can be connected to your node for broadcasting and verifying the txs in a private mode.
Follow the instructions you can find in your Umbrel dashboard - Connect wallet.

General rules:

  • a HW like ledger should NOT be used as a regular daily wallet.
  • you setup once the ledger, save the seed and MPK (master public key)
  • close it into a safe and don’t touch it anymore, that’s why is named “cold wallet”
  • use the MPK in any wallet app that supports “watch-only” wallet (so you can make deposits to that ledger wallet, anytime you want, without opening the ledger)

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