As we have learned over the past few months, there is a new importance of keeping your cryptocurrencies safe and under your control. We have watched several Crypto marketplaces such as FTX, Celcius and others collapse taking hard-earned investments with them, leaving traders discouraged and with lost profits.
This concerned me quite a bit as well. Although I have started trading with smaller amounts compared to some, I can see how if you trade right you can earn larger gains. Some gains that you may want to park and hold on to while they mature and be able to sell them over a longer term. In these types of instances, it would be a good idea to look at the purchase of a hardware key.
Since I have been working as a hobby trader, these were my criteria for a hardware wallet.
-Something that will be compatible with the different trading platforms I use.
-Something small that doesn't take a lot of space to store.
-Something secure, that I don't need to worry about the wallet taking my money.
In the end, I purchased the Trezor Wallets and purchased it through Amazon. This unit was under $100.00 CDN and I was able to have it shipped to my house in a few days. The unit arrived and the packaging was intact (the instructions I had told me to make sure that it was or not to use it if there were any damages to the packaging). It took me a while to open that packaging, as they made it superglued together to make sure you knew if it was tampered with, and began the setup.
The nice thing I found about the Trezor is it doesn't have an actual account linked to it. Your key acts as your credentials in essence. I downloaded their app and when I plugged in my Wallet it recognized it and I began the setup. First, it upgraded the firmware on the unit to bring it up to current, then begin the process of adding the coins to the wallet. I added the standard BTC and ETH coins and learned how to find the different Tether codes to add ETH Tether coins to your wallet. The process is quite simple and will allow you to hold those in your wallet as well which is sweet.
The wallet also gave you a lot of flexibility in moving quantities of currencies between trading houses and your wallet. You can adjust the fees and the speed you want to transfer your coin between the locations. If you are just moving the money, you may want to slow down the time it takes to mine those for lower fees. Or if you need the coin there proto, raise the priority, pay a higher fee, and the time it will take is shorter.
One thing that I noticed when moving coins is that the app seems to move the currencies quite efficiently. Noticed on some of my previous transfers to other exchanges that bitcoin gave warnings that the transfer wasn't done efficiently. This caused extra time and maybe extra fees to process these. When transferring from Trezor, it seems the transfer noted that it was clean, which shows that their process has been optimized in some way. Will have to research more into the benefits of this. But it looks like Trezor has done their homework on this.
As your continue to read about my investing plans, I will share that I plan on not holding the total investment amount on the trading platform. I think it is important if you are holding on to a coin to allow an investment to mature, it should be in your best interest to hold this in your hardware wallet. This prevents these coins from being stolen and protects you in case of a trading platform collapses to allow you to control your investment.
I also like the ability to have several sub-wallets in my wallet. I have several ventures that have currencies coming in and out. I set up several different wallets on there with the applicable currencies and it provided me separate deposit and withdrawal addresses to allow me to direct these transactions into separate accounts. I like this and allows you to label them and store the labels on services such as Google Drive. That way if you move to a different PC and use the web version, it will pull those labels and your wallet will look the same on the web as it would on the app. Each wallet can have a separate password to them so that your investments can be divided and are secure even from each other. So if somehow one wallet got hacked, the other ones would remain secure.
Overall, I am happy with the setup and the way the Trezor Wallet operates. They have provided everything that you will need from the start to start working with a hardware wallet and find the product reliable. I did a lot of my research through their Youtube channels and with the testing I've done I think the Model One is a great model to use to getting started in storing your own crypto.
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