Please, everybody do this: Set a Passphrase (25th word/phrase). This is NOT the 24 word seed.

(The poster earlier who lost it all, was confusing the terms 'passphrase' and 'seed-words').

The Passphrase makes it impossible for anyone having access to your hardwallet and even having your 24 words seed, to get into your secret wallet protected by the Passphrase. They even wouldn't possibly know if you have one set up.

Here's how you do it, it's very easy:

https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005214529-Advanced-passphrase-security

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