The best bitcoin or hardware wallet for 2026? Blockstream Jade Plus, Trezor Safe 7, or Foundation Passport Prime. Compare them based on your needs and order from the Netherlands.
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Hardware Wallets
Bitcoin Self-Hosting Mistakes: 8 Pitfalls to Avoid What if your bitcoin setup seems secure, but your backup turns out to be the weak link? That’s where things often go wrong with self-hosting. Not because of the big picture, but because of small, silly, human errors. Taking a photo. Quickly uploading something to the cloud. Deleting everything too quickly from
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Bitcoin Basics
Coldcard Mk4, Mk5, or Q? Compare the three models based on specs and air-gap method. No longer available from BitcoinStuffStore as of September 2026; a guide for owners.
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Contents Who is WantClue? Which solo miner models are covered by the code? How to use the WANTCLUE code in 4 steps Three Bitaxe models: which one is right for you? Setting up AxeOS and mining the Bitaxe Web Flasher Solo at home: expectations vs. reality WantClue on YouTube Frequently Asked Questions Want to start solo mining and looking for the right Bitaxe hardware?
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Solo Miners
Setting up the NerdMiner T Display S3: Wi-Fi and pool setup What if you were the only one on the block mining a bitcoin block solo? Setting up the NerdMiner T Display S3 takes less than 10 minutes: connect to Wi-Fi, enter the pool details, and you’re done. The chance of getting a block is astronomically small. You know that. But the
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Storing a seed phrase as a backup: Compare Cryptosteel, Seedfan, and paper in terms of fire risk, errors, and costs for secure bitcoin self-custody.
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Guides
Storing Your Seed Phrase Safely: Paper vs. Metal Explained What would you do if your house burned down and your bitcoin seed phrase was written on paper? Most people don’t ask themselves that question, until it’s too late. A seed phrase is a sequence of 12 or 24 words that grants full access to your bitcoin wallet
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Important, August 2026: A bug has been found in the Coldcard firmware that causes seeds generated on the device prior to version 5.6.0 to be weaker than intended. Please update your Coldcard MK4 to version 5.6.0 or later before generating a seed. If you have already generated a seed, you will need to generate a new one:
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What do you give a child that might still be worth something later on? Another plastic piggy bank full of euros? Or something that immediately shows what money really is: saving, waiting, building up. Bitcoin savings for kids is exactly that second option. That’s where the Lightning Piggy gets interesting. This isn’t just any ordinary bitcoin piggy bank for kids. It’s
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Which solo miner should you choose if you want to start mining at home? That’s the question I’ve been asked most often in recent months. Three open-source devices in three distinctly different price ranges. They all do the same thing: mine Bitcoin blocks without a pool managing the reward for you. But they do it in very different ways, with very different hashrates,
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