For safety from $5.00 wrench attacks, or any kind of robbery that involves violence, what's everyone's opinion in keeping away from purchasing, and owning any hardware devices that are directly associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? I believe that it's going to be a problem when some people see you own a hardware wallet, the presumption would be = you own "a lot of Bitcoin".
The same reasoning can also be applied to credit/debit cards, leather wallets, and other "containers" of money: people who have or use them in public are clearly not that poor. Yet, we rarely see people being attacked just after paying at the checkout of a grocery store.
Because they have grown to be very common in modern society. Especially the usage of Credit Cards today, they're more viewed as something that's holding debt to the banks than a status symbol. Perhaps 70 years ago when the first Credit Cards were issued to important clients, they were good targets for robberies. Currently, no. Credit Card holders usually have more debt than wealth.
I'm debating for the novelty of cryptocurrencies, and how some of its HODLers are probably in a path of accumulating wealth because they are HODLing the right coins. A smart criminal would target them, and one way to find that target? Hardware Wallets.