I have a couple family members with bitcoin on ledgers, they have never signed up for any backups or given ledger personal info, how urgent is it to get them on to a bitcoin only device? I have some extra cold cards I could give them but I think it may be a little technical for them.
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Coldcard is simple
My understanding is that you have to interact with some shitcoin dApps in order to have been in immediate danger, and even then, the target wallets have been neturalized. But Ledger is lazy. Lazy dev practices. Lazy customer data management. It's just a matter of time before they feel thr effects of this laziness.
Harm reduction might be getting them off of Ledger Live and onto a Bitcoin wallet that supports the Ledger device. Then figure out their needs and skill levels as users and see if there are Bitcoin-only devices that can meet those needs. Block's little wallet looks promising, but with tradeoffs that might not be palatable to a power user.
If you give them the coldcard along with a link to the tutorial by nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 and nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech then they should have no trouble. But technically they shouldn’t use a pre-owned HWW 😉
BitBox (Bitcoin only version) is very user-friendly and certainly no more complex than Ledger. But frankly the coldcard is no more difficult, it just has the option of using advanced features that other HWWs lack. But the basic setup process with coldcard is effectively as easy as any other brand.
To your question, my understanding is that their funds aren’t imminently at risk, but depending on the size of their stacks, they may want to keep their risk tolerance level at zero.
In any case, the sooner the better