Woher weiß Ledger, dass meine Seed-Phrase auf dem zurückgesetzten, nicht angeschlossenen Gerät korrekt war?

[root_s2yse8vt]

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Noob-Frage. Ich habe gerade einen Ledger Nano X gekauft, ihn eingerichtet und testweise $10 Bitcoin gekauft. Dann habe ich meinen Ledger gelöscht und meine Seed-Phrase auf meinem Gerät eingegeben, um sicherzustellen, dass ich wieder Zugang bekomme. Meine Frage ist, wenn ich das Gerät gelöscht habe, woher wusste es, dass meine Seed-Phrase korrekt war, wenn es nicht mit meinem Laptop verbunden war?

[relephants]

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It didn’t know your seed was correct. It just unlocked wallets that were derived from those words.

You could have put other words instead of your seed and it would have unlocked different wallets related to those words.

I am oversimplifying things because I’m tired. Only words from the approved word list can be used to generate a wallet and the last word is a checksum.

Say your seed is hello my name is relephants. Wiping your device and entering those words again will unlock the same wallet every time.

Now you wipe your device and enter hello my name is not relephants. Boom a new wallet is generated with no link to the other one.

[Quiet_International]

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Because the seed phrase is just a very large number. That number is your (for lack of a better term) the coordinates of your crypto address. The number is so huge that it’s impossible to guess. Think of number of grains of sand in the universe. Your „address“ is just one atom on one of those pieces of sand. The seed phrase is just a human readable form of that number that is the location of that atom so you can find it again. You don’t need to be online in order to write down a number. You don’t need to be online in order to restore a device so that it knows that number again. (Note: the atoms and sand thing is an analogy to give a conceptual model for very large numbers. Something most people don’t deal with daily: numbers so huge)

Anyone with that number can access your coins. That’s why the seed phrase is so important to protect.

[Flaky-Wedding2455]

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Good move doing the test. You are on the right track doing it right. Keep learning everything you can about the basics of how everything works. Most crypto loss using ledger etc is from user error.

[CorneliusFudgem]

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cause it originally generates the phrase offline in a safe way

this is why the device is secure, it can generate recovery phrase and be restored offline

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