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Board Hardware wallets
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Re: Trezor Safe 3 New Hardware Wallet
by
apogio
on 20/10/2023, 07:58:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,vapourminer (1)
The theft of the Trezor hardware wallet is the most serious. Is it possible that there is a bad man inside the Trezor company who left a backdoor in the manufacturing process of a small number of wallets? And the genuine firmware of Trezor and Trezor Suite did not recognize it?

In terms of the "stolen" reviews you have found - do any of them actually provide any details? It is easy for a competitor to post fake reviews, and we've also seen countless users on this forum make posts blaming their hardware wallet for the funds being stolen, and it almost always turns out to be a mistake the user has made instead (such as storing their seed phrase in their emails). I wouldn't pick a Trezor device for many reasons, their anti-privacy and pro-censorship stance being the main one, but I also doubt any of these "stolen" reviews are true.

Well I have heard rumours about Trezor funds being stolen. I have heard of someone who claimed money loss but he had forgotten his passphrase. This means that it wasn't due to the company. Here is another example of this situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/sfpotu/lost_passphrase/

Let's say that a company ABC produces a HW and you buy it and use it. After a month, you lose an amount of BTC. In my opinion, chances are almost 100% that it is a user mistake, provided of course that the HW and the company ABC is reputable and trusted, and provided that you have bought it straight from the company and not from a reseller.

It all comes down to us after all. I have also lost a small amount of money from a hot wallet I owned: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5461230.0 . Personally I had made a ton of mistakes, so...