Foe the love of God, do not buy a ledger, and if you absolutely must, do not use their Ledger Live wallet software. Learn to use Sparrow with a Ledger instead.
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And when ordering it online (or any other hardware wallet), don't send it to a home address.
And don't buy it from a rando 3rd party
I've been doxxed in the Ledger hack in 2020 and I still receive crypto junk mail, EVERYDAY Metamask Coinbase Binance Uniswap PayPal scam Mails, I get calls (using Yet Another Call Blocker which works well), I receive SMS, I once got a letter informing me about Pulsechain. Absolute shit show.
Still learning, but isn't it a bad idea to plug your cold wallet into your computer just to get around using Ledger Live?
We're talking harm reduction here. There are no good options with a Ledger.
That is a popular suggestion, to plug in your Ledger to manage it with Sparrow. Just seems very risky for Windows OS.
My thought was its better to keep it air-gapped and use Ledger Live one last time to send to a sparrow hot wallet, then from there use Sparrow to coinjoin to a new cold wallet.
Curious what the more experienced think about this
You always plug in your Ledger S and X or connect it via Bluetooth to your phone. Ledgers are cosmetic devices for pro-Boomers
I heard the guys on the Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast talk about how shitty ledger is. My cold card got here yesterday
I have learned a lot of shit listening reading and interacting with people from the Bitcoin community and it is significantly better than the shitcoin community
I never trusted it. Now I know why.