Cold storage ≠ invulnerability: how Ledger, Ledger Live, and good practice fit together
Most newcomers assume a hardware wallet is a bulletproof vault: place your coins on a device, forget about them, and they are safe forever. That belief—cold storage equals invulnerability—is the misconception I want to dismantle first. Hardware wallets like Ledger's family (Nano S Plus, Nano X, Stax, Flex) materially reduce the attack surface for private keys by keeping secrets inside a Secure Element and forcing physical confirmation of transactions. But "reduces" is not "eliminates": outcomes still depend on recovery practices,...