Focus on the last few words in your note and you’ll see the flaw in your thinking.
Hardware wallets are purpose built devices. Smartphones are general purpose devices.
A smartphone isn’t “cold storage” and shouldn’t be recommended as such. Unless you are opening the device to remove all wireless antennas it can still be compromised without your knowledge.
Put simply, if it’s capable of an Internet connection it’s not cold storage.
Smartphone ≠ Hardware Wallet
bitbuds / TK
npub1ad…fqpla
2024-11-16 18:36:02
in reply to nevent1q…p84n
Author Public Key
npub1ade7g0nka9jdz008z3k7yn8lrgev4l02z0dw2mzd6q5qfkppxq8sxfqplaPublished at
2024-11-16 18:36:02Event JSON
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