it should be incredibly obvious by now that you should not be trusting custodians

learn how to securely hold bitcoin yourself - my full guide is here: werunbtc.com/coldcard

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TBH, we're at a point in time where custodians should be pushing for self custody.

it will be a lot of lawsuits filed 👀

What advice do you have regarding UTXOs?

Depends when you think you’ll need to spend utxo’s, what you think bitcoin will be able to buy when you do need to spend those utxo’s, and what information you’re comfortable giving your counterparty.

After reading that, i recommend to watch this

https://youtu.be/FAYmE5-40PQ

Trust them or the SEC

Hi, I don’t have any experience with hardware wallets. Are Trezor, Ledger etc. good choices besides your preference?

No, they are not. Either get a coldcard, or learn how to do proper self custody with TailsOS, use glacier or yeti cold protocol.

Thank you!

They can change it anytime time they want to, it’s open source. The just need to fork off.

What? Why?

Is WoS custodial?

I'm not sure that self custody is the panacea.

It is possible to have a custodian but not without paying a reasonable fee. Exchanges don't even have custody of their own coin.