Long shot here, but I think I'm on the brink of being able to replicate a bug--the problem is, I don't know what causes it, if it has ever affected anyone else, and how to even begin debugging it. I know not everyone does cryptocurrency here but I don't know how else to present the problem which I am starting to think might be hackintosh based. Here goes nothing, thanks in advance for reading.
Basically, I use a Trezor hardware wallet for storing some different cryptocurrencies. The trezor has its own software for the majority of supported coins but a few of these cryptos must be used with their own GUI in order to use the trezor device. (For context to the problem I'll outline next, the standard software built by the company to use with the trezor device has never given me an issue, only the GUIs for different coins.)
Anyway. There's a thing called a 'passphrase' with crypto wallets, which basically adds an extra word to your seed phrase (which is the access to the coins--coins are NOT stored on the device, only the private keys/seed phrase). Some of these coins that are supported by trezor but don't use the company's software require a passphrase in order to use the trezor.
Cutting to the chase, I've set up 2 different of these coin wallets now only to lose access a couple weeks later with a 'wrong passphrase' error. After the first one got messed up I was able to accept that perhaps I just lost the password (I even bought a new one to make sure it wasn't a glitch!). But after wallet #2 has been lost, using a different trezor device, I am 100% sure I have not put in the wrong password, had a typo, etc and the only common denominator seems to be my hackintosh. The device shows you the passphrase on its little screen when setting up one of these wallets, so I also know that when setting it up that the passphrase was spelled correctly. But now, I can't decrypt the wallet because that passphrase doesn't equal the same one that I set up the wallet with.
I've tried the wallets on other non-hackintosh computers and it still doesn't work, which must mean that there was some interference when initially inputting the passphrase. (By the way, all the coins are still there, so I know this isn't some malicious attack.)
It got me thinking... maybe the hackintosh has some weird sort of bug at a deeper, maybe a mechanical level? As mentioned in the title, the machine literally works PERFECTLY aside from the BT going out here and there. I'm now wondering if maybe, somewhere, somehow, some invisible spaces that I couldn't see on the trezor screen had been added to the input, or the passphrase was truncated, or something like that.
It's hard to wrap my mind around how this could be going wrong, as I usually use the same basic passwords when I'm messing around with new wallets... but now that it's happened on a different trezor device with a completely different coin and wallet, I'm starting to suspect the hackintosh... and like I prefaced, I have no idea where even to begin troubleshooting this. I've hit the cryptocurrency's subreddits and gotten what support I can. No one's heard of anything like this before and everyone probably just assumes I'm in denial about forgetting my passphrase.
Any ideas?
TL;DR Looking for thoughts, insights, advice! I lost 2 unrelated crypto wallets due to what I believe might be the hackintosh interfering with my initial passphrase set-up. I have no idea how or why this could be happening. Funds are safe and the software hashes are verified, so it wasn't some third party hacker messing with me. Have tried different USB ports and different USB cables. No idea what's going on.
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