Check my bitcoin wallet balance
The Bitcoin Chrome application updates automatically. Each time Ledger releases an update, it will be synced after a few hours on your computer.
If you want to force an update to the latest version, just restart Chrome. The Ledger Bitcoin Chrome application does not open. When you launch the Ledger Bitcoin Chrome application on your computer a message prompts: It means that you are required to connect your Ledger device to open the application.
The Ledger Bitcoin Chrome application does not synchronize balance, transaction history issues. When you launch the Bitcoin Chrome application and connect your Ledger device, your wallet synchronizes before opening. It can last from a few seconds to a few minutes. Your funds are safe. Check the status of your accounts on blockchains explorers.
The Ledger Bitcoin Chrome application settings. Interface language Select in the scroll menu the language in which you need to display your application. The discrepancy is caused by the nature of bitcoin. Instead of storing actual coins, the bitcoin protocol should be seen as a distributed public database of transactions which together form the blockchain. Bitcoins only exist in the sense that you can trace the chain of valid transactions until you reach special coinbase transaction , i.
You can almost think of all the transactions forming a singly linked list , that stops at one end with mined bitcoins, and on the other end with unspent bitcoins… except for the fact that each transaction can have multiple inputs or outputs.
Please keep in mind this is voluntarily simplified, if you wish to know more check the protocol documentation. One of the quirks of the protocol, is that the amount of the inputs and outputs in the transaction must match in reality, the output can be less than the input, and the remainder then constitutes the optional transaction fee.
That rule greatly simplifies the validation of transactions, since there is no need to extract the entire history of transactions to figure out how much funds are spent or unspent for a given transaction: The drawback of this solution arises when you need to spend only a fraction of the amount received in a previous transaction. In that case, the wallet software automatically creates two outputs to the transaction: Alice previously received 1 BTC from Chip and 0.