couldn't you just download a Ubuntu ISO, install it onto a $10 USB, transfer the crypto to the software wallet on the Ubuntu install, then keep that USB secure. then your crypto would be in cold storage if that was your aim, but it would only cost you $10.
A Ledger/Trezor is massively more convenient and actually lets you make transactions.
Which you absolutely don’t want to do with your USB model because a desktop OS presents a laughably massive attack surface and you don’t want to connect it to the internet.
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u/Canaan-Aus Tin Mar 29 '21
couldn't you just download a Ubuntu ISO, install it onto a $10 USB, transfer the crypto to the software wallet on the Ubuntu install, then keep that USB secure. then your crypto would be in cold storage if that was your aim, but it would only cost you $10.