Hello Guys, My female work colleague is interested in cryptocurrency and wants to buy bitcoin for long term holding. She was asking user friendly bitcoin hardware wallet. She is not a technical minded women. I said her to buy Ledger Nano X. I personally find ledger hardware wallet easy to use but I might be wrong there are so many hardware wallet in the market. I have never use other hardware wallet.
Can you guys suggest her which one is good hardware wallet for new users for storing Bitcoin ??
1.Ledger Nano X,
2.Trezor T,
3.KeepKey
4.Cobo Vault Pro.
I am not familiar with cobo vault pro.
Trezor T is very secure and one of the hardware wallets that is easiest to use, however potentially vulnerable if lost unless you use a passphrase.
It is fully open source, this is the perfect wallet for the average person.
Online security is excellent.
Very good wallet.
Leger nano X, close source, however it is very secure, however if you enter the pin wrong 3 times it self reset which makes no sense, other hardware wallets it is like 15 times, it has bluetooth which make it easier to use with a cell phone.
Very good wallet.
Keepkey, it is based on the trezor one code but not as updated. using it with shapeshift is buggy, however you can use it with the original keepkey chrome client, or electrum, mycelium, and maybe wasabi.
For the price you can not go wrong it is by far the cheapest of all hardware wallets, however it is less secure than trezor or ledger, I do recommend this wallet for low amounts of money since it is more secure than any software based wallet, but I would not recommend this wallet for large sums of money.
Keepkey other than large screen useful for older people, and low price, has no advantage from either from ease of use or security.
moderate security, very low price.
The most secure hardware wallet seems to be the coldcard mk3, it has a lot of security features that the other wallets do not have, the trade off it is highly technical not for newbies, and bitcoin only.
I personally prefer to have multiple hardware wallets for different purposes.
For ultimate security coldcard mk3.
For an online password manager trezor T
for u2f ledger X, and then trezor T, since ledger X makes it easy on cellphones due to bluetooth.
for making up my seedfile coldcard mk3.
to play around with small amounts: keepkey
Even if a hardware wallet is lost or stolen even though most are vulnerable to physical attacks, the attacks are difficult and most thieves would have no clue on what to due.
Since she is not technical leave out coldcard (advance wallet), and keepkey since she would most likely use shapeshift encounter bugs and get a bad bitcoin experience, my recommendation is Trezor T since it is the easiest to use while being secure at the same time, it uses a web gui for a bitcoin client, the only thing you will need to tell her is to never provide the seed to anyone plus you get a password manager with it.