Post
Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Safety of your private key
by
Nestade
on 31/03/2019, 23:07:09 UTC
I now have hardware wallet ledger nano s for more than 1 year, i never had problem with it. I think is more safe and secure to have a hardware wallet, because even on linux i see some kind of viruses.
Hardware wallet most secure i got recommendation in many users. I  have been using hardware wallet from several months but i scared about my computer protection i mean if unfortunately i will be face pc hacking incident when hacker able to hack my wallet. I think Paper wallet is better than hardware wallet.

"Paper Wallets" (which are nothing else than your private-key written on paper) shouldn't be less secure than hardware-wallets as long as you're generating it offline and keeping your private-key isolated from the internet [1].

For hardware-wallets it doesn't matter if your PC is affected by malware... the private-key is isolated from the host.


[1] Guide for offline-transactions using MEW:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4500372.0
https://kb.myetherwallet.com/offline/making-offline-transaction-on-myetherwallet.html