<div class="text-justify"><p>The hardware wallet (on a USB stick) failed AND I could not recover from keys. I had set a custom passphrase that probably looked odd to anyone but me yet was super-easy for me to remember. I had it written down, too, just in case I ever forgot it.</p>

<p>After the wallet failed to open the first couple of times, I looked at the written-down passphrase and entered it slowly and carefully but still received an error. Then I inserted the microSD card "backup wallet" into the USB stick to recover the corrupted wallet on the stick, but experienced more "failed passphrase attempts." After a certain number of failed attempts, the wallet locks permanently.</p>

<p>This was not long after I'd come to the Steem blockchain, before Hive launched. The only crypto I had was the STEEM, and I only bought the hardware wallet because "everyone" kept talking about how good they were and that everyone should have one. I never put anything on it, but occasionally "played" with it, logging into it and going thru all the settings, <em>etc.</em> to see what was there and trying to understand it all. That was <b>$100</b> I will certainly miss, as I could have bought a nice chunk of crypto with it instead of a device that eventually failed. 🙁</p></div>