What's safer to use, a consumer laptop used merely for Bitcoin and shitcoining, or a Ledger Nano S+?
A "consumer laptop" is basically a hot wallet, which by definition shouldn't be considered safe. The moment you find out it's no longer safe, your coins are gone already. Ledger devices are even worse than hot wallets: they're designed to broadcast their seed over the internet. The moment you find out it's no longer safe, is probably the moment a couple of million naive
Ledger Recovery users all lose their coins at the same time.
So out of those 2 options, I'd pick #3: a Trezor Safe 3.
What a waste of money. But when my Ledger arrives, what if I don't use the "Seed/Wallet Recovery" feature? Would that be safer than a consumer device that isn't being used for anything except Bitcoin/shitcoining?
OK, the closed-source firmware is concerning, I should have remembered this topic before buying myself a Christmas present. But can we truly say that Ledger wallets are not secure?