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Hard Wallet protection – put your Crypto on your own device!
Blockchain wallets like MetaMask, Coinbase and plenty of others, like real world banks, well…get held up and robbed (hacked) from time to time.
One way of being 100% secure with the Crypto $ currency you have, is to tether a ‘hard wallet’ which is actually a USB interfaced style hard drive that connects to your computer and soft wallet, like MetaMask. Think of it as the stashed roll of currency in a sock under the bed, instead of those fiat funds sitting in a bank. Same idea.
Here’s some info on hard wallet products from Ledger, a hard wallet product manufacturer:
https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s
Also some info on how all this works:
https://www.ledger.com/academy/security/the-safest-way-to-use-metamask
product video:
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this assumes the drive doesn’t go bad … which they sometimes do 🙂
I haven’t checked on it in awhile, because i prefer to use a service provider, but you at least used to be able to print out the keys for your wallet on paper as a backup. that of course assumes you dont get robbed or your house burnt down …
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lol! depends what bad neighbourhood you live in, or if a Dooms Day meteor falls on your house, etc for sure – after 24 months of Uncle Coronavirus I just want to save up some tokens and crypto and buy a villa in Fiji! LOL Cheers! 🤣🤣🍻
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this is fascinating — i have been meaning to understand the fundamentals of a hard wallet. Thank you Vince!
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hey @mikedoestheart – for sure, for about $100 getting a Ledger Nano S off of Amazon, and then protecting all the info and seed # phrases on a piece of paper – this should keep your crypto safe and secure. If Metamask EVER, I mean ever gets hacked (who knows), then you are screwed.
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