Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 10, 2020, 09:48:48 PM

Not to mention if your goal isn't long-term storage or if you plan on making some trades or whatnot.

I would agree with your point further down that if you goal is long-term storage, then an airgapped, encrypted, cold storage is better than a hardware wallet. I like my hardware wallets because they are a good balance of security, portability, and ease of transacting without having to dig out and boot up my cold storage.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on November 10, 2020, 09:48:48 PM

I followed exactly zero of them when I bought my Ledgers (and that damn Keepkey), but since I don't actually have much of value on them, I'm not terribly worried about getting phished, hacked, keylogged, or whatever else it is that thieves are doing these days. Lately I've been more of a by-standing cheerleader for bitcoin than someone who's got his foot in the market. Oh well.

The concern that a lot of people have is not these phishing emails - they are easy to spot and easy to ignore. What is concerning most people about this Ledger hack is that an unknown number of physical addresses have been released as well, opening the possibility of $5 wrench attacks. Even if you have nothing or very little stored on your Ledger, good luck convincing an attacker of that.

Quote from: suchmoon on November 10, 2020, 11:19:25 PM

Yeah. I don't even know why it's showing as "Ledger" - different phone number each time and I don't have them in my contacts. Must be screwing with Google somehow, or whatever malware dialer the carrier might have installed on my phone.

Various phone carriers have this feature. Essentially they register their phone number under the name "Ledger" with their carrier, and then the carrier pushes that to your device whenever you receive a call or text from them.