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Merits 9 from 3 users
Re: Avoid Ledger and their Complies Sanction Crap!
by
Meuserna
on 01/09/2025, 22:43:58 UTC
⭐ Merited by The Sceptical Chymist (4) ,vapourminer (4) ,ABCbits (1)
. Maybe in the next 1 or two years, they will come up with another thing again. Or maybe they will come up with it within months.
They will end up no customers on that period of time in two years or so if they continues with practices that contradict the core principles of cryptocurrency.

I wish you were right, but there are faaaaaaar more crypto-bros than there are educated Bitcoin holders.  Crypto-bros only care about moonz and gainz.  They care far more about trendy gadgets than they care about security.  They don't even understand the basics.  Ledger realized those guys were easy targets sometime around 2020 and they started aggressively marketing to them.  Interestingly, that's when Ledger's marketing color scheme went from white to black.  Ironic, eh?  No, not at all.  Ledger went to the dark side.

The most low-information Bitcoiners use hot wallets.  The next-lowest-information Bitcoiners use Ledger (and Tangem).

As proof of what I mean, go on any Ledger forum.  You'll find idiots who praise Ledger for being closed source.  Yikes.

Bitcoin ownership hasn't gone mainstream yet, so Ledger will have no shortage of low-information people to market their trash to.