hopium on Nostr: you sound like me, so I'll tell you how I do it: hardware wallet - ledger lightning ...
you sound like me, so I'll tell you how I do it:
hardware wallet - ledger
lightning wallet - bluewallet
buying/DCA - strike
A couple notes about the above. When I first started off in my bitcoin journey a couple years ago, I was using ledger live as the software to connect to my ledger, but I started running an umbrel node at my house and I couldn't figure out how to connect ledger live to my own node so I started using sparrow wallet instead. Also since I started running the node, I was able to change my lightning wallet from Wallet of Satoshi, which is custodial by default, to bluewallet, which I was easily able to connect to my umbrel node. I only keep < 250,000 sats in my lightning wallet and the rest in my ledger. I also have a lntipbot lightning wallet which has like 10,000 sats that I use for nostr zaps. I don't keep any sats in strike or any exchange for an extended period of time (I have been burned in every possible way you can think of in exactly the ways everyone will warn you about lol). This setup took me a long time (years) to settle on and was an iterative process so don't be too hard on yourself about getting the exact perfect solution right off the bat (most important concept in the beginning is just the hardware wallet aka cold storage for large amounts). I think one of the best videos I saw on the topic that helped me out a lot when I was first starting was by Andreas Antonopoulos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNVDIz6Snw&t=1s&ab_channel=aantonop
hardware wallet - ledger
lightning wallet - bluewallet
buying/DCA - strike
A couple notes about the above. When I first started off in my bitcoin journey a couple years ago, I was using ledger live as the software to connect to my ledger, but I started running an umbrel node at my house and I couldn't figure out how to connect ledger live to my own node so I started using sparrow wallet instead. Also since I started running the node, I was able to change my lightning wallet from Wallet of Satoshi, which is custodial by default, to bluewallet, which I was easily able to connect to my umbrel node. I only keep < 250,000 sats in my lightning wallet and the rest in my ledger. I also have a lntipbot lightning wallet which has like 10,000 sats that I use for nostr zaps. I don't keep any sats in strike or any exchange for an extended period of time (I have been burned in every possible way you can think of in exactly the ways everyone will warn you about lol). This setup took me a long time (years) to settle on and was an iterative process so don't be too hard on yourself about getting the exact perfect solution right off the bat (most important concept in the beginning is just the hardware wallet aka cold storage for large amounts). I think one of the best videos I saw on the topic that helped me out a lot when I was first starting was by Andreas Antonopoulos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNVDIz6Snw&t=1s&ab_channel=aantonop