At this point why even bother with cold storage devices … 🤷🏻‍♂️

What?

What would you suggest? Keep it on an exchange, or just buy IBIT or MSTR?

Self-custody bitcoin but why waste your money on devices that can be tampered with? Hot wallet with a strong passphrase is good enough as far as I am concerned.

2026 is being hard on the cold wallets

YDY 👍

I'm thinking Tails on an air gapped computer, coin-flips, dice, and seedpicker.net.

Solid !

Opening the device sounds smart, but it's a trap for 99% of users. 1. Most people don't know what a clean motherboard looks like vs a professionally soldered micro-chip. 2. You risk permanently damaging the hardware or the screen glue. 3. If the supply chain is compromised, you simply cannot rely on that device anymore. The real solution isn't becoming a hardware engineer; it's eliminating the single point of failure by moving to a multi-vendor, multi-sig setup (e.g., Ledger + Trezor + Coldcard). 🔗 If you want to understand how this supply-chain attack bypassed the official software check and how to properly secure your funds, I wrote a full breakdown here:

Yakihonne

🚨 Ledger Hacked by Official Distributor: Why Sealed Boxes Won't Protect You Anymore

• The Event: A highly sophisticated supply-chain attack publicly uncovered between October 9 and 10, 2026, targeted CryptoBilis, an official Ledg...

Skip hardware wallets. Almost every chain has been compromised: social engineering, hardware, software, supply chain, entropy issues, firmware upgrades that have access to your seed and more that tells me to not use hardware wallets anymore. Seed Signer seems the better option.

Or weigh it and compare to official weights

Alternatively don’t buy it and just use a seedsigner 🙋‍♂️

Or just do t have your entire net worth on a usb flash drive that can get run over by a truck.

i made a video of my version

That's quite the assortment of 3 vendors who I'd avoid all of. Maybe try Krux, Seedsigner, and a diy'ed stateless Jade. Or Specter DIY.

@npub10000...ucuy weighing it against the official spec is a smart check. i'd do both before loading a seed onto any device that came in the mail.