It sounds fishy to me That he offers $200 and says to contact him on his Telegram without ever showing up here again, at least for the time being. He may or may not be sincere, I'm just saying we have to be cautious with these things as scams of this type abound. In any case and as has been mentioned, a HW wallet is the best option.
To me this is definitely shady, just asking which hardware wallet is good and then will give $200 in return by contacting telegram, very suspicious.
Maybe the scenario is like this: Someone contacts the OP's telegram to claim the $200 reward, then he might argue to access a certain link (maybe it could be) because usually scammers always have a way, I'm not entirely accusing but this way is a bit suspicious.
Even he can search the internet about the best HW, many articles provide this, but I don't know what the OP is doing is just a possibility.