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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Avoid Ledger and their Complies Sanction Crap!
by
Meuserna
on 01/09/2025, 20:28:56 UTC
Ledger is poison.

Using closed source code to secure your Bitcoin is making a deal with the devil.  It's dangerous.  Bitcoin is open source.  Your wallet should be too.

We were warned about all of this long ago:

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"If you are a Recover user and have your shard into safeguarded by third parties, then yes, a government could subpoeana them and get access to your funds."

"Using Recover gives you an easy recovery option and mitigates backup loss, but your assets could get frozen by the government"

SOURCE

Note: Even if you don't use Recover, the code required to enable key extraction is on your Ledger device.  Don't be surprised if Ledger announces compliance for government access to that API.

Ledger is poison.