Hi please help me to chose a hardware wallet i am confused in buying i really don't know how its works
dose its came with private keys and nobody have our keys or when wallet came we setup everything .
and how secured our payment ?
our payment stored in wallet of wallet provider servers ?
i need answers of following question honest suggestion will be appreciated.
hey, so I have two of them. I have Trezor and Ledger Nano. I have read that you can refresh the hw from the backup phrase, but if I was to trust all my money to it, I didn't want to get vendorlocked in any particular product (which may be discontinued). So I tested it myself: and it turned out I could refresh both products with the same backup phrase, no problem there.
I think I could recommend them both to you. They have their advantages and disadvantages, but what doesn't? Ledger in segwit mode didn't want to pair with Electrum wallet (Trezor did), but Trezor suposedly has this hack that when you have physical access to it you need only 15 seconds to get to private keys, but I don't know if the news is true or not.
They both were shipped in sealed packages, so I think nobody (no 3 letter agency, that is
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) played with it en-route.
They came empty and I was able to start them from scratch, they generated all private keys (read: backup phrase) for me when I first started them.
I hope I helped you.
An off-topic thought: when someone asks for help on that forum, usually it is not answered at all. But all threads requiring writing a one sentence reply of the type "yeah I think the bitcoin will get to n millions in k years" get hundreds of pages long. That is not very good for that forum usefulness I am afraid...