Author: Theo Brandt
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D’CENT Biometric Wallet: What the Fingerprint Cannot Do
The fingerprint on a D’CENT biometric wallet unlocks the device. It does not replace the recovery phrase, and the audit badge on every review page is…
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Wallet for Binance: Who Actually Holds Your Bitcoin Keys
Your Binance balance, the self custody wallet inside the same app and a hardware wallet are three different arrangements. Here is who can move the coins…
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SafePal Wallet: The Air Gap and the Customer Data Leak
SafePal signs by QR code with no radio on the S1 and S1 Pro, and the X1 does not. A dated look at what the air…
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CoolWallet Review: The Card Format and Its Tradeoffs
CoolWallet builds hardware wallets the shape of a bank card. Here is what CoolBitX documents, what its own security advisories said, and where the format costs…
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Non Custodial Crypto Wallet: Who Can Move Your Coins
What non custodial really means: who can sign, who can freeze, and what happens to your coins when the company holding them fails.
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Samsung Blockchain Keystore: Check This Before You Rely On It
Checked against Samsung’s own developer and support pages on 4 September 2026: what Keystore does with your private key, why rooting a Galaxy destroys it permanently,…
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Trezor or Ledger: An Honest Comparison for 2026
Both keep your keys off your computer and both make you approve payments on a screen you hold. The 2026 model lineups changed on both sides,…
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Your Recovery Phrase: The Ways People Actually Lose It
No company holds a copy of your recovery phrase, so nobody can restore it. Here are the specific ways phrases are lost, with the vendor guidance…
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Coinbase Seed Phrase: Which Product Actually Has One
The Coinbase exchange account has no recovery phrase and never did. The self custody app, renamed Base App in 2025, does. Confusing the two is how…
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Trezor Hardware Wallet: What It Protects and What It Does Not
Trezor keeps your keys off your computer and forces you to approve payments on the device. It cannot stop you being talked into typing your recovery…
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Ledger Nano S Plus: The Cheaper Wallet, and Why It Wins
Drops Bluetooth and the battery, keeps the security model. For most people that is the right trade.
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Trust Wallet: What Keeping Keys on Your Phone Actually Means
A mobile wallet keeps keys on a phone. Here is what that means and where it sensibly fits.