Coldcard MK4 Setup Guide Secure Your Cryptocurrency Today | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Setting up a new hardware wallet can seem daunting, but fear not - this tutorial walks you through how to set up the Coldcard MK4, one of the most secure cryptocurrency hardware wallets available. We'll explore its advanced features and demonstrate how to use it to keep your cryptocurrency secure.

Stay Tuned for my Wallet Setup Video using the Coldcard Mk4. Coming soon!

Coldcard Security FAQs

Coldcard open-source firmware repository on Github

MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility

GPG for Windows

Coldcard docs for firmware (including verification in you scroll down)

00:00 🎬 Intro
00:55 🛠 Various Use Cases
01:33 🔐Security Features
01:52 ⚡Powering Your Coldcard Mk4
02:41 📦 Unboxing the Coldcard Mk4
03:56 🗂️ Various Backup Mediums
05:34 🔄 Download the Firmware Update
06:16 🔄 Firmware Update Cryptographic Verification (optional)
09:45 🔄 Copy Firmware Update to SD Card and Run Update on Mk4
12:47 🔐 Setting Your PIN
15:11 📝 Writing Down Your Backup Phrase
18:03 ↔️ Enable/Disable Interfaces (NFC, USB)
19:02 🔐Passphrase (Optional)
20:02 🎉 Conclusion

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[ottoman]

Why the heck can’t things be made simple for those of us that are on the wrong side of the curve?!

[JustMillion]

I was planning on ditching my Ledger and buying a cold card until I saw how convoluted this setup process is. Thanks for saving me some aggravation 😆

[zachcain]

This video makes me happy. The Cold card is one of my favorite hardware devices. Blockstream Jade is the other.

[jerkojovic]

Awesome work man. great that somebody finally shows this for windows.

[DouglasCMills]

Perfect timing. Just got mine in the mail today!🎉

[billydanzz]

If the Ledger debacle is now driving this move towards absolute cold storage, and setting one up is this involved; the point of widescale adoption of personal storage by the 'average masses' has moved even further away.

[southbayproducts]

Thank you I need this one not sold at this time I will keep learning love my BitBox 02 BTC only

[lbH]

Excellent content but I would not recommend using that seed phrase in the editing of the video the first 3 words were visible...

[rufuspipemos]

Question.... going through that brutally complex air-gapped firmware setup scares me. How risk is it really to download it? Have there been instances where someone on a TREZOR or LEDGER has ever lost their coins due to downloading a firmware update? I've never heard of one yet.

[bitkong]

I dont get why all these wallet companies wanna write names on the devices indicated it's something with crypto..

[MrKiwiben]

Updating the firmware seems like a total pain! If I don't update it will the coldcard still work?

[fatcatdog]

Dad help!!

great vid and info keep doin it … it will pay off
please help….. no one has made a video on using the led screen on the cold card to receive… I sent from hot wallet to QR code on device…. But my skeleton wallet doesn’t show funds… I do see it when I make watch only wall with pub address

[Afiore]

Why is my cold card bricked with a red light and says verifying? Can’t get it to do anything else no matter what I try.

[ikust]

16:08 why no judgment ? I know that Antonopoulos says that 12 is perfect …

[tarunchadalla]

Thanks a lot for the video but couldn't understand what is enter pin prefix and enter rest of the pin are they both same ?

[thecelt]

ive been unable to connect ledger device via desktop to the new elronnd xexchange where i had farms on the old maiar dex now called xexchange any ideas anyone ? trying to relocate the farms i had on the old maiar dex that i used ledger to connect (nano s) a year or so ago

[OnlyMans-wpcb]

Noticed when using air gapp to create a Sparrow Wallet with ColdCard your exported the generic JSON however, now ColdCard has a Sparrow Wallet export...do you now export that instead of the generic JSON from ColdCard? Thanks

[kaysersozze]

If you disable USB port, how do you turn it on next time ?

[ikust]

Brilliant : for sure watching this one later

Sir: where is the video about Sparrow ??

[jdo]

Is backup phrase bip-39 compliant ? i.e. could be used in a different crypto wallet this is also bip-39 ?