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I'm shopping for a new hardware wallet, and I'm bothered by all the wallets that advertise their support of 10k+ coins. It makes me want to not buy them. So now I'm focusing on Bitcoin only wallets.
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FrostByte 1y ago

I've used two brands recently.

Foundation Passport is nice. If you only need cold storage for yourself, it's great. Probably a great solution overall. Especially if you want to scan QR codes, it is excellent.

Coldcard Q. This is my favorite because it fully supports BIP-85, which are child seeds derived from the master seed. The BIP-85 feature supports exporting as many xpubs as you wish, for watch-only wallets. This is great if you are being an Uncle Jim to members of your family. All the child seeds are backed up in the Coldcard. The QR scanner is not compatible with most software wallets though. So I transfer psbt's via sd card, which always works.

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SLCW 1y ago

I've looked at the Passport, and it is really nice. But it's expensive. I'm just looking for something in the $100 range that's bitcoin only, open source, send secured with a secure element chip. It will be used primarily as a signer with Nunchuk Wallet, so I don't need a lot of the the bells and whistles the more advanced hardware has. I'm currently leaning towards the Portal, but I'm still looking.

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Bee Aye 1y ago

you can get that trezor one with bitcoin only firmware fir under $100 pretty sure

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SLCW 1y ago

Which Trezor model are you talking about? I haven't really looked too hard at the Trezor because it seemed like it was more expensive than I wanted to spend. If they have one at about the $100 mark, I'd definitely look into it.