Anyone who pushes a platform to safely store your Bitcoins is, imho, not a benign player. Why would anyone want any platform when you can keep your cryptos in your own wallet?
Hardware wallets are as good as the companies behind it. Unless every byte in their firmware is open sourced, its not secure.
The only secure way is to generate the private key on your own, running on a computer that is not connected to an internet (and will never connect to an internet), and using the wallet based on that key to store your cryptos.
It is not enough to just generate the keys offline. The device used to generate the keys should never be connected to Internet except when you are ready to empty the wallet.
Anyone who pushes a platform to safely store your Bitcoins is, imho, not a benign player. Why would anyone want any platform when you can keep your cryptos in your own wallet?
I agree, hardware wallets are best. Notably Trezor wallet whose code is open source and audited.
I disagree.
Hardware wallets are as good as the companies behind it. Unless every byte in their firmware is open sourced, its not secure.
The only secure way is to generate the private key on your own, running on a computer that is not connected to an internet (and will never connect to an internet), and using the wallet based on that key to store your cryptos.
Which is exactly why I think Trezor Hardware wallet is the best wallet to get.
It is open sourced and you can generate keys offline.
It is not enough to just generate the keys offline. The device used to generate the keys should never be connected to Internet except when you are ready to empty the wallet.