This Cold-Storage Crypto Wallet Is a Smart Investment

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If you don't use a safe storage device, you don't really own your crypto. Keep it safe from prying eyes with one of these.

Simple to set up and secure. Good instructions and hand-holding for beginners. Ledger Live app works well and supports a wide range of coins. Bluetooth connection enables mobile trading. Can store NFTs.about owning digital currencies, you need a hardware wallet. Just as the wallet in your pocket stores physical currency, a crypto wallet stores your digital currency. It keeps it safe from hackers but conveniently available when you need it.

This is hard for most of us to wrap our heads around, so we tend to buy and store our digital currencies on exchanges like Coinbase. But the problem is that we don’t have the private keys to that money. Without private keys, you don’t really control it. At the same time, if you do have the keys, you need to keep them securely locked up and not just stashed on a hard drive. That’s where the Nano X comes in.

The Ledger Nano X is a secure hardware wallet that stores your private keys. It looks like a swiveling USB stick, with a small screen on the front, mostly because itOnly purchase your Nano X directly from Ledger. Any other source could potentially be compromised. The Nano X is available on Amazon, from what looks to be a legitimate Ledger storefront, but I still highly recommend buying directly from Ledger.

 

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Crypto cringe Bitcoin only

The Ledger is more likely to hold its value than whatever you put on it 🤣

I love how wired will write 100 articles about how crypto gives you cancer and is a danger to future of the planet but then a long, glowing review about a crypto hardware wallet.

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