You should have aborted.

Those secure elements are already backdoored by nsa.
If a device is being made to store bitcoin, then they have all incentive to back door it.

Again, air gap is also a data, a malware can still be transmitted via air gap.

I have two laptops just dedicated for that purpose. And I use usb and I format it after each transfer.

But again if everyone knows what I’m going to do with a device be it generic laptop or hww, the incentive is to back door it.

The biggest risk is people knowing what you are going to do with that hardware.
If I buy a laptop, no one knows what I’m going to do with it. Whereas if you buy a hww, everyone knows you are gonna use it for storing bitcoin.

Also I’m not saying to use online wallet to store your large amounts of fund. You can use offline laptop with clean Debian like tails on it to generate keys. And use another laptop for watch only wallet

Also air gapped means nothing. It’s just data. A malware can be transmitted via usb or air gapped QR.
It’s just a larp at this point.
To prevent malware you have to use clean Linux installation and verify core yourself.

Have fun connecting a 9 volt battery to a Mossad spyware.

Now the new psyop is to buy more hardware wallets from different vendors.

Also some retards have vibe coded a html file and are calling it more secure than bitcoin core.

Hww was a nice psyop.

Trezor back in 2013.
It’s more like signing device, was never meant to be a cold storage solution but these bastards marketed it that way. They also fudded generic hardware but you look at what they say it’s bs.

Also the attack vector is way to high, which I personally wasn’t aware about. Like the whole open source means nothing if a software isn’t heavily reviewed and guix reproducible.
Only bitcoin core and Linux has that.

Most of these so called open source projects use libraries which are completely unaudited and are literally a sand box. A software can remain open source but a rouge dev can just ship a bug in the library and rug you.

Also the secure elements is backdoored which handles entropy in most hww, also can rug you via nonce attack. Dude they can fuck you over in ways you haven’t thought about.

Like for cold storage you don’t need those spyware and for hot wallet a iPhone will do fine or any android phone just dedicated to it if you’re travelling or you could just use bitcoin core on online laptop.

Be like satoshi

lol my earlier response got deleted

Those coldcard money was life changing for him

Wow a shitcoiner got offended. You are a sneaky shitcoiner in this space.