Everyone recommends a hardware wallet to store Bitcoin, which
Bitcoin wallet is good to safeguard your investment for free is a question? maintaining those hardware wallets is a pain in the wrong place.
As of my experience, these are
My Five REASON Why I do not want to buy them?1. They are costly if you are paid in Bitcoin as a bounty hunter or for a gig.
2. They are a liability as if, you lose it you will lose your investment.
3. They are not easy to operate and most exchanges do not support them.
4. They have to be updated periodically or you will never see your Bitcoin in them.
5. They can still be hacked if you are using them online for trading or other stuff.
If you think I am wrong with my opinion then do comment.
Thanks.
One of the Members compared my 5 reasons with his reason why a hardware wallet is better? and I replied to that member adding 5 more reasons.
Questions2. Same with mobile wallets, if you lose them, you will lose all your coins unless you made a backup or stored your keys (if provided).
3. Using both Hardware and mobile wallets are easy to understand. It depends on a user's ability to understand the interface. You don't have a hardware wallet right? How come you conclude they are not easy to operate.
4. Same with mobile wallets, you have to update it regularly. I don't see any mobile wallets that don't need an update.
5. Same with mobile wallets, they are also prone to hack.
Answers2. The chance of losing a mobile phone is very less as they are no more a palm device like hardware wallets. Another best thing about mobile devices now days is that they can be tracked and as well as disabled remotely.
3. Why would you want to make your life complicated using both devices? Choose one which has multiple usages like a mobile device.
4. They get auto-updates periodically which you do not need to monitor. You have to manually update and monitor updates.
5. Both android and iOS have firewalls they cannot get hack automatically unless the user downloads a malware. But, hardware wallets can be easily detected by that same malware when you are trying to update it.
I use both hardware and mobile wallet. I bought the Ledger Nano S from my friend last year for only $100 because he has no plans of using it and needs emergency money. Everyone can express their own opinions regarding the hardware and mobile wallet. I don't have a problem with both hardware and mobile, as I am staying neutral with them.
Both of them has private keys or mnemonic phrases as our last resort if in case we don't remember our passwords. We have to make sure that the private keys or mnemonic phrases are stored somewhere safe on your notebook or a piece of paper (not on email, notepad, screenshot, etc.). Speaking of the screenshot, I learned the hard way when one of my phones got sudden forced factory reset.
You have good points about Bitcoin mobile wallet though. However, I would have to remain neutral on this one.