Quote from: Catenaccio on Today at 04:04:23 PM

Quote from: headingnorth on Today at 03:54:44 PM

To save a few bucks someone decided to buy a hardware wallet from a questionable non-official source.
I guess that didn't turn out to be such a great idea.

Do you know someone who is super cheap even when they may be well-off?

Such people must know that hardware wallets are not the only ways to store bitcoins safely. They can use open source non custodial wallet softwares like Bitcoin Core, Electrum wallets and store their bitcoins safely as well.

It's only they must learn and know how to use wallets.

They must know that if they want to buy and use hardware wallets, they must afford to spend money to purchase good hardware wallets from official stores. If they want to save money, purchase used hardware wallets or from unofficial stores, anywhere on Internet, they will not only use money but also lose bitcoins.

LIST Open Source Hardware Wallets.
[GUIDE] How to buy a Hardware Wallet the right way.

I have never owned a single hw wallet till now and never lost a coin to a hacker. As long as you run a clean OS (preferably a linux distribution), don't run pirated software and use a browser that's not bloated with shitty plugins, you are pretty much good to go. You really don't need anything else. Almost every crypto out there has a electrum-like trusted light wallet. You don't even need to download the whole blockchain to make them work like you said.

Doge > Dogewallet
Monero > Feather wallet
Btc > Electrum
Ltc Z Electrum Ltc

etc... There is always a solution. HW wallets is a waste of money. Just buy more bitcoins instead. A satoshi is not spend is a satoshi saved. Save private satoshi.