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15 hours ago 6 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit
Subtitle:New touchscreen wallets are more impressive. But for some self-custody users, a small screen, two buttons and Bluetooth may still be exactly enough. The Ledger Nano X has a strange position in 2026. It is no longer the exciting new hardwar...
24 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit
The bug is already patched. But the uncomfortable lesson is bigger than the bug itself. One of the main reasons people buy a hardware wallet is simple: “I can see what I’m signing on the device itself.” That little screen is supposed to be the fin...
19 Aug 2026 8 minute read 1 comment Cryptosafekit
Nearly 14,000 Trezor customers just learned that self-custody has a security perimeter far bigger than the device in their hand. The strange thing about hardware-wallet security is that we spend almost all our time thinking about the device. Private...
17 Aug 2026 8 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit
The most dangerous attack on a hardware wallet may never touch the hardware wallet at all. There is a sentence I see constantly after someone loses crypto: “But my Ledger was never hacked.” Sometimes that statement may be completely true. The Ledg...
13 Aug 2026 8 minute read 3 comments Cryptosafekit
I used to think I had found a clever place to hide my recovery phrase. Not online. Not in a photo. Not in my email. Not inside a cloud drive. I wrote the words carefully on paper, folded the sheet, and placed it inside an old book on a shelf at my p...
13 Aug 2026 11 minute read 0 comments Cryptosafekit
If five wallets depend on the same compromised phone, are they really five separate security systems? A disturbing story has been circulating through parts of the Chinese-speaking crypto community. According to the circulating account, several crypt...
11 Aug 2026 10 minute read 3 comments Cryptosafekit
A few days ago, I heard about a Ledger owner who found himself in one of the worst situations a self-custody user can face. I’ll keep his identity private, but the sequence of events is worth sharing because nothing about it sounded extraordinary at...
7 Aug 2026 7 minute read 1 comment Cryptosafekit
The uncomfortable weak point in self-custody is often not the wallet—it’s what happens when the wallet is gone A few years ago, I thought hardware-wallet security was mostly about the device. Buy a reputable wallet. Keep the recovery phrase offline....
6 Aug 2026 8 minute read 5 comments Cryptosafekit
What the COLDCARD entropy incident teaches us about generating, migrating, and physically protecting a wallet backup Most hardware-wallet security advice begins after the recovery phrase has already been created. Do not photograph it. Do not upload...
5 Aug 2026 8 minute read 2 comments Cryptosafekit
The COLDCARD entropy bug shows why self-custody security begins when your recovery phrase is created—not when your device goes offline Imagine doing almost everything crypto security guides tell you to do. You buy a hardware wallet. You generate the...
