Do not use Windows, do not use a hardware wallet unless your business depends on it, problem solved. Honestly, no consumer level bitcoin investor needs an hardware wallet. People who owns a saas website/casino/exchange may need a hw wallet but nobody else does. If you are an investor, you need a sturdy laptop that can run linux and that's it. It is much better than having a hw wallet, much safer and less complicated. Ledger and trezor are solutions for a problem which doesnt exist. Buy more btc with that money instead of wasting it on those junk.
This is somewhat new.
Are you saying that running a crypto wallet on a Linux operating system is more safer than a airgapped device?
Well make sure that the Linux OS never get connected to the internet for the long term until you are ready to sell your coins.
Because I am very sure that there are some exploits for Linux OS too, they aren't just as many as that of windows operating system, but saying that Linux OS is safer than hardware wallet is craaaazzzzyyy.
Never heard of such before, you are the first.
You must have been living under a rock then.
Also where did I ever mention any internet connection in my post, can you highlight it?
Don’t reply with bullshit about the topics which you don’t know much about or at least show some effort and read the post carefully… unless you want people to make fun of you.
Internet connection isn’t as scary as you think either… as long as the OS/wallet is safe. It is definitely safer on a linux distribution.
People who hold a few hundred bucks in btc buy hw wallets while most early adopters that own tens, hundreds of btc keep them in a piece of paper or old laptop. Go figure. Damn lemmings.
Since you have called hardware wallets a junk you have won, there is no reason for this conversation to continue, you are living in a different world my friend, and good luck with that.
I have a Linux user myself and yes it's possible to run good open source wallet on the Linux OS or turn that old laptop into a DIY open source wallet but what I can't figure out is when it's time to move that Bitcoin to an exchange can you sign it offline?
Thanks for the lesson but I stand my grand that a hardware wallet that's airgapped is safer than running a wallet on a Linux OS, I respect your decision and I will be sticking with mine.
You don't have to call a fellow human being a lemming, if you call me one then we are both lemmings.
