Metamask Safety

I've been hearing a lot of FUD about the metamask wallet especially about it being hacked or having funds stolen, yet I have about $300k in it myself and regularly see people trading things only available on uniswap via etherscan. Can anyone point to me even a single unpatched instance that anyone has had funds stolen with at least an article or something as proof?

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Obviously not, it's one of the most used wallets and is available on the play store/app store. If it was getting hacked or people were just losing funds you would be heading about it on every crypo news site (and probably msm)

Tried to buy eth but it just stole my money

the FUD is made by hardware wallet shills, just use metamask like everyone else.

People have been phished by fake plugins, thats about it

>i have 300k in it
oh my god just spend the 100 dollars on a hardware wallet you fucking poo poo nugget retard. why take the risk

lmao fuck your shit wallet. i have one and i just use it as a decoy. it's empty

I can't make AAVE loan transactions from a hardware wallet and if I can, it's still less convenient than just using metamask and trading on DEXs

wtf? a decoy? even if someone gets my hardware wallet they can't do shit with it lol. now metamask on the other hand is a browser plugin, if someone phishes you, discovers an exploit or keylogs the password you're done for

you can connect metamask to your private wallet. i have
>huur whats the difference
if this is what you are thinking right now, unironically sell all your crpto before you end up retarded in a gutter somewhere

Just use it with a hardware wallet

Use a cheapo laptop with a clean os install and use it for nothing else but trading

You know you can connect your hardware wallet to metamask right?

>I can't make AAVE loan transactions from a hardware wallet and if I can, it's still less convenient than just using metamask
Bro i literally use trezor+metamask on AAVE. You just ok transactions on the device itself

WHY THE FUCK would i bother doing that when a hardware wallet is $100 you kooi aid slurping fucking retard?
>use it for nothing else but trading
and what kind of advantage and protection do you in your little pea brain think this provides? i would throw a rock at your head if you said this anywhere near me. fucking tech illiterate coon

yeah, and it's COMPLETELY different to doing so without

Honestly hadn't bothered looking this up, but this seems like the way to go assuming Ledger or Trezor doesn't get hacked themselves. Which of the two would you recommend and why?

i think the broader issue is that now days people interested in cryptocurrency don't understand the basic concepts or even what cryptography is, so they have no idea what a hardware wallet does. they literally think its a usb stick from what i've seen. fuck em let them lose everything

no you didnt and no it didnt

People say both are fine but trezor is open source and the team behind it is pretty legit. I just got trezor t and has a nice touch screen. Ledger has Bluetooth too

People say both are fine but trezor is open source and the team behind it is pretty legit. I just got trezor t and has a nice touch screen. Ledger has Bluetooth too. But whats nice about hardware wallets is your seed phrase never leaves the device and only shows on setup. You NEVER have to enter it to use with metamask or exodus or whatever works with hardware wallet

my linkies? You bastard!!!

MyCrypto Desktop is probably safer but no one talks about it here

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i use a trezor but either are fine, people complain about ledger being closed source but i think it's overblown.
>trezor or ledger get hacked
even if it did, you would hopefully find out about it before connecting your ledger or trezor to a potentially compromised system, there would be no way for a hacker to retrieve the funds. also hacking a hardware wallet is kind of a tall order. i'm not going to say its impossible but hackers generally go for the weakest links which are exchanges followed by stuff like metamask

whatever you buy, make sure you buy it either directly from the maker or from one of their approved sellers, don't just buy it off ebay (to make sure you're getting the genuine thing that hasn't been tampered with)

You can stash your funds on contract at squirrel.finance. You can see the benefits over MetaMask on the site. It’s mainly going to be used for large wallets since you have to use gas to access the stash

how is any of that better than MyCrypto Desktop on an airgrapped computer?

Yeah there is definetly something wrong with it, I tried sending some money to a uniswap on twitter but the tokens never came back

I'll look at Trezor then because I trust open source more. It seems you have to connect the device (at least the Ledger articles I've seen) to your PC to sign transactions. I guess that would mean I would have to take it out of my cold storage place to interact with it. I wouldn't be able to bury it somewhere or put it in a safety deposit box or something then. Maybe I can just get two. One for a "hot" wallet that I use like a debit card for Metamask transacitons, and the other for more permanent storage.

it's less popular for the exact reason it's more secure, it's not a browser extension

You shouldn't have that much in a hot wallet without a hardware wallet.

Also be careful what smart contracts you give approval to. Most of the time the approval is to move unlimited amount of a particular coin. This means if you give approval to a malicious actor, they could literally pull all of the approved coin out of your wallet.

there have been more trezor exploits than ledger exploits to date. source: some article I found online.

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It seems safe. I haven’t found an instance of a hack.

I am incredibly paranoid so I always have my shit staked or in liquidity pools and keep almost no ETH in my wallet.

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There are vulnerabilities but they require physical access to the device + the passphrase. The hardware wallet makes it a lot harder to be hacked over the internet, you can then store it in a safe or safe deposit box

you pay like 100 dollars to not have to think about that shit ever lol. i can go to the public library and connect my trezor to every computer it doesn't matter they can't do shit. also computers break, the hardware wallets are designed with longevity in mind

yeah better to get 2 in that case, you need the hardware wallet to sign transactions, private keys never leave the wallet

also look into storage solutions for the seed, i don't have any but there are fireproof metal capsules and shit so even if your house burns down and everything is destroyed you still have the seed. you could bury that or put it in a safe or in a deposit box or whatever. if i had 300k in crypto i would definitely get some fireproof seed storage and put it somewhere safe. the seed is the trickiest part