As for the hardware wallet, a classic trezor would do it, but adding just ten bucks for the new model seems legit.
I will use the ledger for the dust and spare change, maybe. I also reviewed all my other "software" wallets, some were never used.
I'd always be a little cautious with very new models..
And even if the model is old and has stood the test of time, you should not put your life savings on to a newly bought device all at once. Maybe put a smaller chunk onto it and wait for a few weeks / months before sending the rest.
That might be a good idea.
Maybe send 5% to 10%? So if your life savings was 100 BTC then maybe send between 5 and 10 BTC and then see if anything happens.. or maybe just send a few BTC.
And if your life savings was 21 BTC, then just send
1 to 2.1 BTC
at most...
wait a week or two and see what happens... In 99.9% of the cases, they should all be there, but every once in a while (maybe one out of a 1,000 or maybe less) they might not be there... They should especially be there if you sourced your hardware wallet through an official distribution chain, rather than getting it from some discount (not correct/official) distribution source... but to be safe, as you say Gachapin, you might not be sure if your supply chain has been compromised.. so who wants to become a statistic merely due to a wee bit of laziness (or lacking in abilities to defer gratification) in terms of a mere 1 or 2 week wait?.. By the way, if you don't put enough funds on there, the hacker might wait a week or two, as well.. so even the waiting a week play might not completely prevent you from losing all of your cornz. that is if you do end up putting all of them on there.
I understand that some people like the idea of using 2/3 multi-sig.. but we also mentioned that has its own problems.. while at the same time, 2/3 multi-sig does make it more difficult to be rug pulled merely because of a problem of any one of the hardware devices.... but just seems like so much work to set up something like multi-sig. and the problems that heuristic had pointed out with Andreas Antonopolis video discussing such multi-sig complication matters, too.
almost 10 years of bitcoin for me.. .. life before bitcoin and life after getting into bitcoin.
My 10 year anniversary in bitcoin is in May 2024. Hopefully we have an approved spot ETF by then & an ATH maybe.
I was a fresh faced mid 20’s noob back then. I have done very well from bitcoin but my God, it ages you.
Funny how many of us here are celebrating our 10th year since ‘enlightenment’!
I too started out on the mining front to make a bit of “free money”.
Now, setup well and retired I find the idealisms of freedom much more appealing.
I thought E Snowden’s speech at the recent Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam was quite inspiring.
You guys catch it?
Pray tell.
I was going to say "link or it did not happen" but instead I found my own link..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fQ7i8q5C8and then watched it.. ONLY 29 minutes (including the after-commentary), so at 1.5x only around 20 minutes.