Alright anons, listen up. I'm trying to get my sats off these CEX death traps before I get rugged by some brainlet employee.
I need a new hardware wallet. What's the play right now?

Give me the real redpill. Trezor? Ledger? Coldcard? Something else entirely? Don't give me any of that hot wallet cope. I'm trying to actually own my Bitcoin, not just gamble with it.

>>60587169 (OP)
They all work fine. Depends on your budget and what you're looking for. Want an expensive but smart-phone like experience? Ledger. Want a simple cheap experience? Trezor. Ledger also has cheaper options like the nano x (which I use) that work perfectly fine. It looks like a USB stick and is easy to hide. I'm sure Trezor has expensive options too. I like the wearable ring, but I don't want to spend the funds right now as I'm satisfied with what I have.

Just buy directly from the providers and use fake names / po boxes. Not Amazon, etc. Is it overkill? Absolutely. But you'll be glad when your info is eventually hacked. I'd use emails and stuff you don't plan on keeping, or use for spam, so if they get hacked, and your spam email gets emails, you know it's compromised.

The reason it's overkill for stuff like ledger is because it does a validity check before giving you a seed phrase, so if people fucked with it, it would flag it, but I don't take anything for granted.

>>60587187
Fuck Ledger ever since they dropped support for the Nano S, they will do the same for other versions in 5-10 years and you will be forced to buy a new one. This is reason alone not to buy their products

I simply do not trust any of those 'dedicated' hardware wallets (especially Trezor)

I've seen too many horror stories about them, which may or may not be from bad opsec from the user, but in either case;

if you want your wallet to be like a piggy bank which you wont withdraw from but only deposit to for a long time. Generate a wallet on an airgapped machine and then note down the seedphrase on those metal plate kits and (redundantly) distribute parts of the phrase across personal trusted locations

Just ask chatgpt all about it, unless you like the convenience of the dedicated hardware wallets

why are these devices used anyway? they can break. it's just small chinkshit in a plastic device, fooling you into thinking it's something hot

Trezor has worked great for me for years. I don't trust ledger since they leaked customer data.