If you are planning to bury your #bitcoin hardware wallet and not touch it for 10+ years, reconsider. You cannot assume that hardware will keep functioning. Even a simple screen malfunction could prevent you from accessing your #btc. Relying on hardware wallets as long-term storage is risky. For long-term backups, store your seedphrase instead.

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People should really just view the HW wallet as what it is, a signing device. It's really secondary. The seed is what matters and must be protected at all costs (multi-sig if that's your thing, but at a minimum on something like a seed plate, billfodl, etc). I always assume my HW wallets won't work when I dig them up, and that'll be fine. As long as seed management is #1.

That is, if I actually owned BTC that's what I would do. Unfortunately, it was lost in a tragic jogging accident.

If the worst happens in the US, one could leave and buy a new device in Switzerland, Singapore, El Salvador, etc., apply the seed phrase and be back in business, right? Assuming one can transact with an off ramp into the local currency.