Web 3 Security — Setting Up My Ledger Hardware Wallet
I got my Ledger hardware wallet after a colleague lost all his NFTs to a spearfishing attack. This was months ago and as someone who is not particularly tech savvy, I held off on setting it up largely due to feeling intimidated with the process.
As I continued to amass a sizeable NFT collection, I became increasingly paranoid. I wouldn’t click on links or connect my wallet to new sites. I was also extremely trepidatious about any minting opportunities that came up. This caused me to effectively miss out on the current free mint meta for NFTs. Creating a burner wallet was an option but keeping track of my cryptoshit already felt like a part-time job and I just didn’t want to have more to manage.
It all became too overwhelming when I had a literal nightmare about losing all my hard-earned crypto and NFTs to a scam. I woke up in the middle of the night and checked my wallet…nothing showed up…my Phantom was just loading slowly but I went back to sleep believing I lost everything. I was already feeling shitty from how bad the market was doing so I didn’t even have it in me to deal with it.
Thankfully I realized in the morning that things were okay and I finally took steps to set up my Ledger hardware wallet. I am not going to lie…it was a bit tedious and time-consuming but once I had it set up, it all worked pretty smoothly and I could see how having a hardware wallet really ensured my digital security. Moreover, with the news of so many crypto firms collapsing recently, I now had a place to move and store my digital assets if needed.
I should have done this a long time ago. Maybe I could have slept a bit easier the last few months. If you don’t have a hardware wallet yet, do yourself a favor and get one. I am hearing far too many stories of people losing everything to scams and it feels like it’s happening every day now.
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