This morning, I was looking for a charger in the drawer, and I happened to pull out that dusty hardware wallet too… Let’s put it plainly: when you don’t have much money, don’t turn yourself into a bank-level process. In the end it just becomes more of a hassle, and you’ll end up resenting it and tossing it aside. A small hot wallet plus a small amount of on-chain interaction is enough; at most, add something like social recovery—so if you lose your phone, it won’t make you fall apart on the spot.

But once your assets are bigger—and you frequently have to sign and authorize transactions—at least a hardware wallet can block some basic “oops” ways to die, like “you accidentally clicked a phishing link.” Beyond that, don’t be stubborn: multi-signature is truly the setup for avoiding liquidity, especially because you already know that once emotions heat up, your hands move faster… Multi-signature can forcibly make you cool down.

Lately, people haven’t been complaining about on-chain data tools and tagging systems being laggy, and even misleading users? I’m becoming less and less superstitious about “just looking at tags means it’s safe.” What you can control is only how you store your private keys and how you sign. Anyway, don’t expect someone else to mark you a “safe address,” and then assume you can just go all in—at the end of the day, you’re the one who takes the blame.