Ledger Nano S - Hardware - Choose your wallet (2024)

Control over your money

This wallet gives you full control over your bitcoins. This means no third party can freeze or lose your funds. You are however still responsible for securing and backing up your wallet.

Variable validation

Payment validation features are provided by the software wallet you use with this device.

Basic transparency

The specification for this wallet is public. This means any developer in the world can do blackbox testing. However, you still need to trust developers of this wallet because the device cannot be verified to be generating secure random seeds and the source code cannot be audited. Updating your device's firmware, generating your own secure random seed or using multi-signature can make it harder to steal your bitcoins.

Very secure environment

This wallet is loaded from a secure specialized environment provided by the device. This provides very strong protection against computer vulnerabilities and malware since no software can be installed on this environment.

Variable privacy

Privacy features are provided by the software wallet you use with this device.

Variable fee control

Fee control features are provided by the software wallet you use with this device.

Ledger Nano S - Hardware - Choose your wallet (2024)
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