Quote from: Litespirit on Today at 12:05:34 AM

No online "wallets", that makes sense. Not comfortable with a hardware wallet because it might be stolen, lost, etc.

A desktop/mobile software wallet, that is the deal.

I think you are confused about what online wallets are, you meant web wallet. Web wallet are the most vulnerable wallet type, their private key are stored on a databas.

Offline wallets/Cold wallets

Paper wallet
- Hardware wallet like Trezor, Ledger Nano and ColdCard
- Wallet on airgapped devices, like Electrum cold storage wallet on airgapped device.
Online wallets/ Hot wallets
- Web wallet
- Mobile wallet
- Desktop wallet
Quote from: OmegaStarScream on Today at 08:19:59 AM
Quote from: Litespirit on Today at 12:05:34 AM
No online "wallets", that makes sense. Not comfortable with a hardware wallet because it might be stolen, lost, etc.
A desktop/mobile software wallet, that is the deal.
There's nothing to be uncomfortable about. A thief won't be able to access the funds without the PIN code and even you lose the device, you can always recover it using the seed phrase, the same thing you would do if you lose access to your desktop or mobile wallet.
Litespirit, some newbies do not know all they need is their seed phrase (+passphrase if included) or private key which they can be used to regenerate back their wallet and be able to spend the Bitcoin the private key control. With the pin said by OmegaStarScream, it will be difficult or nearly impossible for the thief to get access to the wallet while if passphrase is included, it will be impossible for hackers to know the keys and address through physical attack on wallet like Trezor. Hardware wallets are one of the safest wallets so far as the private keys and seed phrase are stored offline and can never be revealed to hackers, but the passphrase which is not stored at all will make it safer for open source wallets like Trezor, while no physical attack can reveal the seed phrase on the ones that make use of secure electrum to generate the seed phrase like on Ledger Nano. Only attack that can get through is clipboard attack which is an online attack while making transaction, no private key will be revealed but recipient address can be changed to a hacker's address through this type of clipboard (and maybe QR code) malware, but it is advisable to check and recheck the address you intpued before sending, but online wallets listed above are not as safe as hardware wallet because hardware wallets are cold/offline wallet.

Quote from: SFR10 on Today at 09:45:42 AM
As much as I hate Coinbase, I have to mention they've created a non-custodial wallet ^{[not sure when they've introduced it]} that it isn't directly connected to their Coinbase app ^{[it has a different icon as well]}:
^{- Despite saying the above things, I still wouldn't recommend "any" of their services.}
But one thing I do not like about Coinbase wallet (the noncustododial wallet) is that it will first bring up users to store their seed phrase on Google cloud, while seed phrase storage suppose to be stored offline for best safety because we can not trust anything stored online.

Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 10:03:05 AM
Yes, I have mentioned "Coinbase" which is different from their non-custodial wallet: "Coinbase Wallet".
In fact, I have afew replies here in Beginners & Help differentiating the two Wink
Yes, you are absolutely right. But in addition, what I noticed is that people (I am not saying SFR10 is getting confused, in fact, he knows the differences between the two wallets) are getting confused and do not know the difference between Coinbase and Coinbase wallet, I am not certain if the wallet is open source of which I doubt, I guess it will be close source, but being a wallet of confusion makes me not to recommend it to anyone.