Concerned:

While setting up my blockstream jade onto a new Electrum wallet, I noticed that I couldn't complete the jade final pin setup without an internet connection. Having used Electrum exclusively for years and never venturing to setup a hardware wallet on top of the software before, I found this really odd.

The jade is bluetooth disabled, set to USB only on local device. The failure came after the jade display of the seed phrase, the mandatory spot verification of the seed, and the electrum recognition of hardware and native segwit wallet. Clicking next, the jade wants to setup a final pin code which will be the means by which i login moving forward on this wallet. Upon entering and confirming the code offline, I receive an error notification after some time telling me that there was a failure connecting to a blockstream online address. Only after going online and entering my pin did it complete and allow me to finalize setup.

Should this be a concern? I'm not sophisticated enough in this tech to know if its necessary to do this with a hardware wallet that should be no-radio. #asknostr