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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Ledger Stax (Ledger's latest hardware wallet)
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 29/08/2023, 06:38:37 UTC
Ironically the curved e-ink is only there to show a wallet label on the side so you can "stack" multiple devices together. I don't understand why anyone would need more than one device?
I don't understand why anyone would need this device, at all:

My thoughts exactly. And not just harmless gimmicks, but gimmicks which actively compromise your security. Why on Earth would I want my hardware wallet to have my name displayed on it? So if I lose it an attacker knows who to $5 wrench attack to get the PIN? And why would I want it to display NFTs? So I can whip it out in public to show everyone my super expensive and rare NFT and make myself a target for attacks? And I really don't understand the stacking function. They want you to buy a separate device for each wallet? At $280? Lol. Or maybe you and your family members are meant to stack all your devices together in the same place to make it super easy for an attacker to steal them all at once?

Have Ledger forgotten that passphrases exist? Or derivation paths? Or even just resetting the device and entering a different seed phrase? Why would anyone need multiple devices?

And the latest gimmick is a protective case? I though the whole point of this stupid wallet was to stack them together and show a picture on the front and up the side? Now they are telling you to slap these cheap cases on them to stop them stacking together and to hide the picture?