Long-time holders of Zcash (ZEC), with coins from 2018 or earlier, are facing issues transferring their asset from Ledger crypto wallets, leaving some early adopters unable to cash out their ZEC as prices soar to multi-year highs.

In an X post on Nov. 15, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp noted that he had run into a surprising roadblock while trying to move some old ZEC. Lopp said that he had tried to transfer ZEC sitting in a wallet from 2017, only to discover that almost every tool he tested had issues, making it impossible to spend his ZEC.

Lopp explained that his Nano X and Ledger Live, a Ledger hardware wallet paired with its app, crashed during the transaction signing. However, it’s worth noting that Ledger isn’t the only crypto wallet that was apparently unable to support the older Zcash. Software wallets like Edge and Zashi wouldn’t accept his wallet’s birth date either, while Electrum, a desktop wallet used for Zcash and Bitcoin, no longer has any functioning servers at all, Lopp noted.

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