Quote from: Dripstoil on Today at 02:07:36 PM

Good day Everyone,

I have never used Trezor or any cold wallets before even though I know it's the safest means to store Bitcoin. So, I essentially know very little about the hardware's functionality.

My questions:

1. If I store Bitcoin in Trezor and eventually I lost the device, can I retrieve the Bitcoion to any other wallets, including online wallets like Mycelium, using the master seeds.

2. Can I access my Bitcoin from elsewhere using my master seeds?

Example, I'm in Capetown and my Trezor wallet is in Miami, USA. How do I access the Bitcoin without the Trezor physical wallet if I needed money urgently?

A hardware wallet is like an air gapped wallet, it's a cold wallet. It only sends signed transactions to your computer, never private keys nor seed. Then to understand how it works you just need to consider it as an air gapped wallet. With a seed of any wallet you will always be able to access your funds where ever you are but your seed and then your wallet won't be called offline or cold anymore because it would have been exposed to potential invisible threats. Then if you need to use your funds it's better from another place it's better to not leave them anymore on your now deflowered seed.

Quote from: Dripstoil on Today at 02:07:36 PM

3. Since it's more like a flash drive, I guess, what happens if it got corrupted by viruses? Or any malware?

I hope the questions makes some sense?

Thanks

All we can say is it's designed to be protected against these attacks, but you need to trust their design skills at the end.