‘Major bummer’ — Users discover Ledger is sunsetting the ‘OG’ Nano S

Users crossed societal media are dismayed aft noticing Ledger, a large supplier of hardware crypto wallets, announced past period it was sunsetting enactment for the Nano S.

In the archetypal announcement connected May 30, Ledger said it was transitioning distant from the Ledger Nano S, and arsenic a result, caller applications, diagnostic submissions and app updates would nary longer beryllium accepted. 

The Nano S was launched successful 2016, making immoderate devices adjacent to 10 years old.

The wallet provider besides encouraged users to “upgrade to different Ledger device” and cheque “they person their 24-word Secret Recovery Phrase to support support.” 

Users fabric connected to announcement

The archetypal announcement from Ledger was posted past month. However, it appears galore users connected societal media person lone conscionable caught on, with comments drifting betwixt anger, disappointment and the grim acceptance that different tech companies already prosecute successful akin practices. 

A user, nether the grip Pcaversaccio, who works wrong the Ethereum ecosystem, said connected Wednesday it was “Very uncool” for Ledger to “effectively unit anyone to bargain and participate the effect into a caller device.” 

Source: Pcaversaccio

“I recognize you’re a concern but don’t play with backwards compatibility guys, galore trust connected LNS. You’re 1 of the fewer trusted parties retired determination and present you commencement censoring caller features & entree due to the fact that of concern rationale,” Pcaversaccio said. 

A large bummer for users 

X idiosyncratic Beau, a Pudgy Penguins information task manager, said connected Wednesday that the modulation was a “major bummer” and a disappointing determination from Ledger.

“If you usage the Nano S currently, marque definite you person your effect operation backed up and if indispensable transportation assets to caller wallets. Don’t privation to beryllium caught with a breached instrumentality aft updates stop,” Beau said. 

Source: Beau

Another user, nether the grip Juan, who is portion of the Nillion Ecosystem, questioned if Ledger is “just gonna deprecate people’s existing devices and unit them to bargain the caller one? Am I speechmaking this right? wtf?” 

Users acrophobic astir imaginable information risks 

Some users asked whether the Ledger Nano S would inactive work, oregon if determination could beryllium a information risk for utilizing the instrumentality without ongoing support. 

Beau said helium thinks, “It volition astir apt inactive work, but the instrumentality won’t beryllium receiving updates, meaning it’s much apt to interruption oregon person a information issue.” 

Related: Hardware wallet Ledger launches offline betterment cardinal for caller wallets

Roman Semenov, a Tornado Cash developer who is presently considered astatine large by the US authorities aft being charged successful transportation with his enactment connected Tornado Cash, claimed helium hadn’t updated his ledger successful years. 

“I stopped updating my ledger years agone erstwhile they started to rotation retired their unreality backup firmware feature. It doesn’t truly request immoderate updates to work,” helium said. 

Ledger didn’t instantly respond to Cointelegraph’s petition for comment. 

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