At what point do you replace your hardware wallet by a newer one?
Hardware eventually dies and Software support vanishes.
What criteria do you apply in your setup? What are the oldest devices out there still in use by you?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 11 Aug
Probaby when it stops working. I have some old Ledger Nano S's (which I stopped using years ago) that the display screen has become very faint.
I have a Jade and a Coldcard still going strong. I'd like to test out some other HWW like the Coldcard Q, Bitbox, Frostsnap or Bitkey. I probably won't buy one of these until something breaks in what I have.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgy OP 12 Aug
Years ago I rotated out a Nano S before the support by the current software was discontinued. At that time I migrated the address format and therefore did it onchain.
Coldcard allows to create backup files to the SD card. Are those upwards compatible e.g. from MK2 to MK4? I guess using such a backup saves some time.
Does anyone have experience with that or can confirm that this works as expected.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy OP 24 Aug
For the sake of completeness: You can not restore a backup written with an older Coldcard/firmware on a newer device.
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