How do institutional investors store and protect their Bitcoin assets?
Institutional investors, such as hedge funds and corporations, have different ways of storing and protecting their Bitcoin assets than typical user wallets.
It is not for us to know lol , but of course they are using more protection that usual crypto holder(though we are all advised to keep our coins safer in how we need it to put)
They mostly use hardware wallet to keep their bitcoin.
But it is correct that one of the safest is Hardware wallet , actually this is also what I am using now , have just purchased mine months ago and yes now i felt more secure in holding my precious coins.
I agree with you, one of the safest way to store and keep your bitcoin holding by using hardware wallet because it keeps the private keys offline which giving you an assurance of high level security from the hackers.
it doesn't store the bitcoin or other coin itself but the private keys that access it which is very important. One of the benefits of using hardware wallet is its maximum security which is immune to malicious software activities and also as a secured back up options when something happens on your software wallets.