Why Should You Order 2 Or More Hardware Wallets At The Same Time?

Today I am going to answer a very intriguing question on hardware wallets.

The question is:

  • Why should we have two or more hardware wallets at the same time?

For a long time, I could not comprehend the benefits of owning two or more hardware wallets at the same time. Moreover, I knew many people holding back on owning just one hardware wallet!

For those who don’t know, “hardware wallets” are wallets that keep your private keys offline and away from easily hackable devices like computers and smartphones. If you don’t take care of your private keys, then it is just a matter of time until you get hacked. This is because your bitcoins = your private keysIf you don’t own your private keys, you don’t own your bitcoins.

To learn about hardware wallets, I suggest you go through the Ledger Nano X Review and this post.

Coming back to our original question …..

Why You Should Order 2 Or More Hardware Wallets

1. To have an extra backup.

Suppose you only have one hardware wallet which is now damaged or has become lost. Luckily, you have not lost your coins because you still have the seed key.

Hardware Wallet

You are now in a hurry to spend your bitcoins, and naturally, you go out searching for ways to restore your wallet using the seed key. You come across the first online wallet you find and input your seed key there. But that wallet wasn’t trustworthy! You’ve just given your seed key away to a hacker, and now, you’ve gone and lost all of your coins!

Alternatively, if you owned two hardware wallets (like the Ledger or Trezor), you would have safely and securely configured your seed key and accessed your restored wallet without any problems.

Tip: You can order Ledger Nano X, which has a bundle that offers 2-3 hardware devices.

2. To have two clone wallets.

The second benefit is to have two clone wallets.

But what’s the benefit of this?

Let’s suppose you hold a huge amount of Bitcoin or other altcoins and you don’t want to risk losing them. That’s why you are extremely cautious and want to keep two hardware wallets that are identical clones. One wallet you want to keep in your office or home for accounting/safety purposes, and another wallet you want to keep handy with you at all times in case you need to make a quick transaction.

I think this is a smart way of handling your funds because you now have ease of access to many places – at home, in the office, or on the go. At the same time, since you have cloned your wallet, you also can use this second one as a backup in case the other one gets lost.

How do you make a clone of your hardware wallet? Follow these steps:

  • Use your second device to configure the same seed key that you used when configuring your first device.
  • Set a PIN on your second device (the pin can be the same or different for both devices).

Now you have cloned your wallet, allowing you to watch and sign any transaction from either device.

3. To mitigate the risk of storing BTC, Ethereum-based tokens, and altcoins.

This narrative is for all (newbies and advanced users).

We all know that Bitcoin and Ethereum are leading the cryptocurrency market cap list, followed by numerous altcoins (over thousands of them). Each day Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other altcoins are becoming more precious, as is apparent from their rising market caps.

At the time of this writing, the market caps are as follows:

  • Bitcoin – $69 billion
  • Ethereum – $30 billion
  • Other altcoins (including Ethereum-based tokens) – $52 billion

The above facts clearly show that if you are holding any/all of these three categories, then you are holding something very precious. And all three of these categories will likely grow leaps and bounds in the future.

So if you are storing your cryptocurrencies on a single hardware wallet, then that is highly risky. It’s risky because you are betting all of your currencies on a single seed key. Suppose you lose that key; you’ve now lost all of your coins.

On the other hand, if you keep your coins spread out through various devices, even if you lose one key, you haven’t lost all of your coins.

Just to give you an example, I would put Bitcoin in one hardware wallet, Ethereum (and Ethereum-based tokens) in another hardware wallet, and other altcoins in another. This is the best way to mitigate the risk of storing everything under one key.

Check out: Step-by-step guide to storing Ethereum-based tokens on the Ledger hardware wallet

4. For educational purposes. 

It is very true that this generation has seen many innovations and inventions, far unlike previous generations. Computers, the internet, and now cryptocurrencies are all things that weren’t even conceivable a mere 50 years ago.

The invention of cryptos started with the pioneering Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakamoto invented. And it is a very well-known fact that any new invention and innovation is bound to face friction from the numerous strata of society. This is what we’re seeing with cryptocurrencies now.

One of the big areas of resistance is the myth around how cryptos are not safe to use. I feel this is because many people don’t know how to handle and store them securely.

As more and more people get educated about cryptos, the industry’s market cap will continue to rise. This is what we are seeing happening now. So if we can teach people about cryptocurrencies and also educate them about how to store and use them securely, then I think cryptos will ultimately come out on top.

In this way, we enable Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to thrive.

One of the ways through which I contribute to the thriving of cryptocurrencies is through writing on CoinSutra about cryptos in a very lucid manner. Another is by giving my friends a hardware wallet like the one I own (Ledger Nano S or Trezor).

Some of you might think that this must cost a lot to keep giving away free hardware wallets to people. But I don’t worry about the money.

Firstly, my initial investment of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have appreciated by more than 200%, so I don’t think giving some of that money back into the crypto ecosystem for educational purposes is a bad idea.

Secondly, even if you were not one of the pioneer investors, you are giving people the opportunity to explore cryptos. This will get them interested and investing, it will get them to tell their friends who will also become interested and investing, and this will ultimately lead to price gains across the board. This is a direct benefit for you.

I think gifting hardware wallets for educational purposes is one of the best ways one can support the rise of cryptocurrencies.

Popular Hardware Wallets

Now, the question is, which hardware wallets should you own?

So here are my two suggestions for the best hardware wallets for Bitcoin (and other altcoins).

You can order them from their official sites using the below links:

If you want to dwell deeper into their functionalities or features and want to know what these hardware wallets offer, then you should look no further than our YouTube channel.

So that’s all I have for you today.

Now I want to hear from you: How many hardware wallets are you using? Which ones do you like the best? Do you have a question about Bitcoin/altcoin hardware wallets? Let us hear your thoughts/comments/questions/concerns in the comments below!

Happy reading, learning, and sharing with the CoinSutra community!

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17 thoughts on “Why Should You Order 2 Or More Hardware Wallets At The Same Time?”

  1. Monique Osborne

    Hi Sudhir, Thanks for posting this article. My husband and I are just getting started, and you made hardware wallets much easier to understand! I look forward to reading more from you in the future.

    1. Sudhir Khatwani

      Happy to know that 🙂

  2. Arsh

    Hi Sudhir,

    Very reasonable article with great pointers to extra pieces of information. Definitely going to share these articles with the people I know who are into cryptos as I seem to be the only one looking to buy the hardware wallet among them. 😀

    Also, even I’m fairly to new to world of cryptos, would you recommend getting 2 wallets from the get go?
    And do you know where can I get these in India?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      I agree with Gavin’s advice!

  3. Doug Wingert

    Is it possible to create multiple wallets using different 24 word seeds? In other words, why not spread your coins out into multiple wallets that have different keys?
    So for example: I get my ledger nano s, generate seed words, write them down and deposit coins. Then I put the pin in wrong 3 times and wipe the device. Now I generate another 24 words, write them down and put some coins on that wallet… I could do this and have multiple wallets all with different 24 word seeds right?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      You can do so if you can handle the hassle of securing two or more seeds.

  4. Tom

    Hi – is it ok to store your private key(s) on 2 different wallets (with 2 different addresses) on 2 different computers?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      As long as computers don’t go online much then it is OK otherwise not!!

  5. Wayne garland

    Hi my name is Wayne and I have not bought any crypto yet because I’m worried about losing everything. And to be honest all this wallet stuff online offline hackers and exchanges is confusing to say the least . I would like to get in on the current drop in price. Ripple and steller are the most exciting because of the potential upside

  6. Jon Adamson

    Thank-you sir for these great tips and ideas. I appreciate it. I do have a Ledger Nano S now but have been thinking of buying another one or perhaps a Trezor or Keep Key as a kind of backup. I like your idea of cloning the Ledger though. Makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again. Looking forward to the rest of 2018 and hoping it will finally take off for all of us. 🙂

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      You are most welcomed here 🙂 And I think it always good to have atleast two hardware wallets.

  7. dean allen

    If I have two different types of crypto, BTC and Zcash, do I need a separate wallet for each type?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      No, modern wallets are HD wallet you don’t need two. But this article has been written is some different context as it is good to have two wallets like Ledger Nano S for various reasons.

      1. dean allen

        I understand your article is about having 2 wallets, one being a clone of the other. But also, I asked the Ledger Nano S help desk and they said I would have to have a wallet for each type of Crypto coin.

        1. Harsh Agrawal

          Not really as it is an HD wallet, even one is enough but having two is the best. As I have explained in this article.

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