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> A wallet is the foundation point for desired consumer behaviors. But is wallet the right term? … To me, it’s starting to feel more like a hard drive or cloud storage.
I never liked the word 'wallet', but haven't found a better term. A better term would need to highlight that it's just an interface, just like a physical wallet is just an interface for your cash, cards and ID, and you can change it anytime. Since most people are used to 'one client - one service' approach, they don't have these mental shortcuts. So if we say that wallet = hard drive, we will lead our users astray because it'd suggest that their stuff is stored on a wallet, and not on a blockchain.
What about 'signer' ?
It would be accurate, but doesn't feel very consumer-friendly :)
> To me, it’s starting to feel more like a hard drive or cloud storage. I very much dislike the term "cloud storage" because Cloud's contemporarily meaning is synonymous with "MS Azure," "Amazon AWS," etc. Also: Wallets are not at all like hard drives or cloud storages. It's a misunderstanding to think that the wallet "stores your NFT." Networks and servers store your NFT. I agree that it might be beneficial if the wallet did store the NFT media, but currently it'd be incorrect to imply that it does through naming. I agree with framing the problem that wallet as a term is not good enough anymore because an actual Ethereum wallet now holds more than just your financial wealth. Yet, I have e.g. my ID card in my wallet and so it still makes sense that I also hold my ENS in my wallet. For Kiwi News, you also hold your "ticket to use the site" in your wallet, which still translates to the wallet metaphor IRL where you hold concert tickets or boarding passes in your wallet too. Yet Jacob wrote: > In a wallet you can: [...] Browse the internet (if on mobile). So what he actually means is to rename the mobile app that we call "wallets" today. OK, then why don't we call them web3 browsers? I think web3 browser could imply that it holds capability to secure a private key etc. And it's in line with the original Ethereum vision also as the first wallet was called Mist, a web3 browser.