I have a KeepKey wallet. It has great shitcoin support which I no longer need, doesn't appear to have coin control, and just feels kind of sketchy because they require constant firmware updates for the app to work. So I decided to switch. I bought a Jade, and a Coldcard which hasn't arrived yet. Is there any way to import the KeepKey wallet to either the Jade or the Coldcard using the backup seed? Obviously I can just create a new wallet and send it on-chain but I prefer not to.
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124 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Aug 2023
Moving to a new wallet seed periodically is a good practice, from many POV.
Don't complicate things when could be very simple.
Always think for the next 10-20 years ahead not 20 days.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei OP 13 Aug 2023
Yeah but I don't want to combine the individual UTXOs, and KeepKey doesn't allow coin control...
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13 Aug 2023
I think you are missing the point of hardware wallets. Those are only the "key keepers" not the apps.
Use them with Electrum, Sparrow and you will have full coin control.
Anyways, for me ALL hardware wallets are a waste of time and money. Just a heavy marketing campaign to sell you a piece of crap. Keeping safe your wallet keys is not really necessary to use a HW.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 13 Aug 2023
Hardware wallets are a good tool for newbies, I have been explaining them differently now, they are a signing helper, not the wallet itself. the seed phrase is the actual "wallet"
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime 13 Aug 2023
This is why seed words exist. For this exact portability.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 13 Aug 2023
I recommend making a new seed phrase and doing a transaction to yourself to move the bitcoin to the new seed.
You never know if the previous hardware software you have used could possibly have been compromised.
Better to start new with a new seed phrase at times like this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 13 Aug 2023
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you just replace the word "import" in your question with "restore", you've got your answer.
I.e. you restore your KeepKey wallet to another wallet (be it Jade or Coldcard) by entering your backup seed into the new wallet. No transaction occurs onchain.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 13 Aug 2023
As long as the derivation path used is the same, you can just put the seed words in and you'll generate the same wallet.
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