Security is like the most important thing in hold, most holders end up losing their asset to phising Link, ponzi schemes and poor education, I think newbies that are interested in investing in bitcoin should take time to learn about it and find out the best way to observe safety, the kind of wallets to use like hardware wallet(trezor cause I plan on buyingone next month, or using closed source wallets, many newbies also make the mistake of leaving huge amount of bitcoin on trusted exchanges and fail to learn from past incidents like the hack on Mt gox and the bankruptcy of FTX exchange, this companies are major target for scammers and they don't guarantee any security to you holders if something happens, we should learn that security is our responsibility if we must keep our crypto safe. I myself try my best to secure my holdings although they are not very massive yet, I'm still on my accumulation stage.
What makes a wallet good is that it is "open source".. and I am not sure how much we should go into wallet security in this thread.... but you can compare hardware and software wallets.
Another priority would be the idea of self-custodial rather third party custodial.. .. but at the same time we know about transaction fees too.. so we might want to make sure that our UTXOs are $500 to $1k (1 million to 2million satoshis) or more rather than having a bunch of small UTXOs.
https://www.athena-alpha.com/crypto-wallets/https://www.athena-alpha.com/crypto-wallets/rating-methodology/ DO NOT POST SESC LINKS https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/trezorT/Wallet security is not the topic of this thread but thanks for throwing light in that area, do many newbies like me who are still learning about our security, and self custody must be practiced but we also need to know how to do it best ourselves.
The links are really helpful 🙂.