Is there anyone with technical expertise who can explain just how difficult it truly is to hack a hardware wallet?
How can I be confident that my private key is never exposed, beyond simply trusting the claims of the company that manufactures the wallet?
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You can't. Only safe way is to make up your own key from 21 words and use it as "paper wallet".
Wait, how do you mean? Is that possible?
Sure, you need some maths, or better python programming skills.
It's pretty simple, also without the BIP39 Seed phrase... Tip: The bitcoin private key is just a number. You can pick your private keys randomly using just a coin, pencil, and paper: toss a coin 256 times and you have the binary digits of a random private key you can use in a bitcoin wallet. The public key can then be generated from the private key.
