I bought over 300k tokens in 2018/2019 and stored them across multiple addresses (back then, it was possible to create multiple accounts within Adalite: Account #0, Account #1, etc). I did extensive research and only managed to recover less than 30% of my ADAs that are on the Byron era. I have a computer with a 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM, and I’m facing some issues: i tried downloading Daedalus on an external HD, but it’s taking too long. I’m seriously considering buying a new laptop to run Daedalus. If I buy one, will I be able to open multiple Byron-era addresses using a Ledger and Trezor T? Is there another solution to open multiple Byron-era addresses with a hard wallet today?
Im pretty sure thats not possible with Daedalus.
Maybe @HeptaSean got an idea to help you out.
As far as I know, Daedalus has never supported multiple accounts, also not in Byron era and not with Ledger and/or Trezor.
So, really not sure it’s worth it to get Daedalus going. You would need much more disk space and probably also more RAM and it will take multiple days to sync even with a larger disk.
Your best bets are adalite.io and/or adawallet.io.
AdaLite should still show you all accounts you used back then on the accounts tab and it does try the Byron keys for all of them according to the advanced tab:
For the accounts that you are not able to recover, does it show a transaction history on the send tab?
A wallet with a balance of 0 appears on adalite.io, and I believe this is the one that held most of my ADAs. Using the Trezor T, one wallet had a balance, and the other did not. I will now connect the Ledger to check how it is there.
Same with Ledger, one wallet with 0 balance doesn’t have the Byron extended public key number when I click on the advanced tab, and this one also had ADA (Byron era).
It not showing the Byron public key is a strong indication of what is going wrong. No idea why they would have removed that for additional accounts at some point. Perhaps ask Adalite/Vacuumlabs directly?
Or you could try adawallet.io.
I think adawallet doesnt support Trezor.
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If Adalite is not responsive, there would probably also be the possibility to somehow do it on the command line.
cardano-hw-cli should be able to also do Byron addresses with Ledger as far as I can see. (Issue 134 says it’s implemented.)
So, this would require finding all the assets on their respective addresses, finding the derivation paths for those addresses, deriving the cardano-hw-cli signing files for them, creating a transaction sending everything on those addresses to a new (Shelley) wallet that you can manage easier, and then signing and submitting that transaction. Quite involved, but doable.
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Okay, I’ve sent an email to info@adalite.io. I hope I can recover my Cardano. How to use cardano-hw-cli on Ledger Nano S and Trezor T?
I tried everything. I think i lost my ada.