They’re probably not any less safe today than they were before – the new key exfiltration feature has not been rolled out yet. Even after it’s rolled out, you can choose to trust Ledger’s claim that it will only be used as advertised, and also to assume that they will never be forced by law enforcement to covertly target you with custom firmware that takes your seed.

There’s a level of this requirement for trust with all hardware wallets. I find it’s a bit worse with Ledger because they are closed source and the firmware has to be flashed with their special software. For wallets where the source is available for public audit, it’s harder to get away with shenanigans.

As a bitcoiner, I’ve also found I prefer bitcoin-only wallets. Not even wallets where I can choose a bitcoin-only firmware – I mean wallets from bitcoin-only companies. It just simplifies things and I feel like the company is not distracted by a thousand altcoins. So my conclusion is easy, I don’t use Ledger.

So yes - we essentially have Bitcoin on one side, and shitcoins on the other.

This is it in a nutshell.

Oh, it was more downvoted yesterday. Must be his hat or something! Or maybe the strange way Lemmy-ui rendered the preview as a wall-of-text.