Quote from: Cricktor on September 18, 2025, 07:44:23 PM

Quote from: ScienceStudent on September 18, 2025, 12:42:43 AM

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Are you too lazy to read the pages of this thread?

First of all, most crypto wallets and particularly Bitcoin wallets don't store any coins. A confusing answer to your question therefore could be: none! But that answer is unfair to a beginner. (Wallets only store the private keys that allow you to sign transactions to move bitcoins. Bitcoins only "live" as unspent transaction outputs on the Bitcoin blockchain.)

I would recommend "lite wallets" like Electrum, Sparrow, Bluewallet. Try to stick to open-source wallets, because only there at least someone has a chance to audit the source code and assess how the wallet operates.

Beware that hot (online) software wallets are vulnerable to malware on poorly secured and operated computers. To increase the security for a software wallet's private keys, you could use a hot (online) watch-only wallet to prepare transactions which are then signed on an offline cold wallet that holds the private keys (this isn't beginner stuff, though).

If you plan to have coins worth low 4-digit dollars I would early recommend to invest in a decent hardware wallet (stay away from the Ledger crap; these pieces of hardware and software shit aren't worth your hard earned money).

I use a BitBox02 and a PiTrezor (the latter more for experiments) and would also buy a Trezor Safe 5 without hesitation. Stuff from Foundation Devices, Seedsigner, Krux wallet and Blockstream Jade are also cool.

Could you please explain in more detail the problems and shortcomings of Ledger, and why many users consider it unreliable or disappointing?