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Board Wallet software
Re: Am I being too paranoid?
by
Faisal2202
on 19/09/2024, 04:57:50 UTC
I made a post about my Cold Card quitting on me (replacement on the way), and when it quit working I decided to import my wallet into my older Tangem wallet that I wasn't using anymore. I'm not sure why I did this as I didn't need immediate access to my BTC, I think I just paniced at the thought of not having access to it for the moment? Who knows. Anyways, in order to restore my wallet created on the Cold Card, I of course had to enter my seed phrase into Tangem. That's pretty straight forward and standard for any wallet's recovery process, I know. But what I'm being paranoid about is that Tangem is a phone app. So up until this point I've been completely air gapped with my Cold Card Q, and now I'm not. BitDefender Mobile runs on my phone and I don't do anything crazy with it, but how bad of an idea was it to restore my wallet into Tangem? I'm 100% certain it's the legit Tangem App software, so I'm not worried about some of the fake Trezor Suite desktop software horror stories I've read. Am I being too paranoid here or should I just generate a new seed phrase when my new Cold Card Q arrives? I've never put my seed into any digital form/media(photo, text file, etc, etc). I've got 2 paper backups, and a metal seedplate backup (Keystone Tablet Plus), so the ONLY time it's ever seen something "electronic" was when I restored it inside the Tangem app. What are your guys thoughts?
You are right your previous Cold Card is now not an airgapped anymore and you already taken a good precaution like by creating new seed phrase whill will generate new address and when you will send your funds from Tangem app wallet to those wallet address your new Cold Card wallet won't be effected and it will hold its air-gapped property.

We actually make small mistakes like these and also learn from them too so I don't think you are being too paranoid.