Hey guys. I bought mine while living in in the EU direct from France and it arrived from France a few days later. That was probably around early 2025.

I figured it's clean but I'll sleep better at night being sure that it's clean. So I ripped it open and snapped some pics for you.

The thing is quite packed on the inside. The back cover is glued on with some special double sided tape around the housing. Not the easiest one to open up but certainly possible. Opening one up WILL leave some marks on the aluminium (?) case. There is a little notch on the left side of it looking down. A small flathead screwdriver can be used to pry it up and then a thin piece of plastic to work around it. Be warned, you wanna pry it open from the OPPOSITE end to open it, not the end with the notch on it.

There is little room on the inside for someone to slap another board in there. Possible, but it would take more mental gymnastics than other Ledgers. This thing wouldn't be my first pick for rigging for sure!

What did this world come to? Opening hardware wallets to verify hardware integrity is now expected of us?! Damn you Ledger! A MITM hack on the screen was SO preventable! Oldest attack vector in the book! Why hack the software that can be updated when you can hack the hardware... Pretty slick!

Anyway, enjoy the pics! :)

We scan the whole UTXO set weekly and match every coin against public keys that are already visible on-chain, either from an earlier spend or by design (old pay-to-pubkey and Taproot outputs).

The biggest exposed balances aren’t lost Satoshi coins. They’re custodial cold wallets that have reused the same address for years. Binance’s largest has had its key public since October 2018.

In their defense, proof-of-reserves is one reason exchanges keep stable, published addresses. But rotating to fresh ones and republishing the list is a solved problem.

For everyone else the lesson is the same: receive to a fresh address every time, and your key stays hidden until you spend.

Plain-English explainer: learnbitcoin.com/rabbit-hole/quantum-and-bitcoin

(Data source links in the comments.)