🔥 Wallet and security essentials: cold wallets and hot wallets
The difference between cold and hot wallets isn’t how they look, but whether the private keys have ever been exposed to an internet-connected environment.
Never import the recovery phrase for a hardware wallet into a mobile wallet. Create a separate wallet for everyday use.
Many people keep $BTC , which they plan to hold long-term, in a cold wallet, and leave the funds they need for everyday use in a hot wallet.
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