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one strange point. we've thought of the wallet as our new universal, interoperable identity in the web3 world. but, today, many users have multiple wallets/identities. which is just as cumbersome as having separate twitter/insta/pinterest identities. people may not even want the universal identity to begin with.

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0xBobatea pfp

i like that my identity can be customizable/siloed based on which community I’m in

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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️ pfp

Maybe Im Wasabi〽️

I wonder what this fractionalization of identity does to our mental selves… today more than ever before we’re able to have so many selves. The more you feed something, the more real it becomes. On the other hand: in the past we were less connected, maybe it was easier to keep secret, fractionalize.

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Arjun Ram pfp

Isn’t that a feature? I have multiple identities in real life as well - at work, as a parent, etc

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Matt Galligan pfp

*totally* agree on this one. Thing is, if you think of the wallet itself (seed phrase) as an abstraction for a whole person (identity) then all of the potential derived public keys could be sub-identities. One controller, but with discretion to use the sub-IDs however they want!

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Jose Aguinaga pfp

Do you think people are interested in the ability to “connect” all the wallets?

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yashad pfp

interesting, i always thought it was more like one “public” wallet with ENS or identity info (real or anon) and then just a bunch of anon wallets spun up for a specific actions that may or may not interact with public wallet.

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Arthur pfp

Only in google chrome I have around 10 wallet extensions. And few more apps on the phone like trust wallet and ledger.

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Nick Smith pfp

If you count all the web2 services you use you’ll likely hit the 100+ mark pretty quickly Having a universal login / bank account / social profile is a game changer. People will use different profiles for different purposes, I imagine most people will have public, semi-private and private versions of themselves.

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kristin eberth pfp

yeah the balance between ‘universal identity’ and ‘single point of failure’ is a tricky one maybe we should expect that to vary alongside the asset holdings, responsibilities, and risk tolerance of individuals

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I’m not giving up on the universal wallet idea, but I do like that people have choices

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thebestwallet pfp

Wallets will have super function of sub wallets like password managers to handle all your needs and identities. The real problem is that seed based wallets will never scale and that the antiquated back up 24 words can never be a thing

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@perl Ace Wisdom

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Ben 🟪 pfp

@perl web3 growth

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meesh pfp

I want control over all my identities...because at the end of the day, everything combined makes up who I am. Having ownership over a universal identity is the dream, while also having control over who gets to see what depending on circumstances.

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Tayyab - d/acc pfp

We have different identities in the various IRL social circles we have today and have had forever. A different you with friends, with family, at work. Are we really meant to be a single identity at all? Web3 or not?

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Avi 💙 pfp

This is so true. As someone who is new to this space, it was surprising to learn that good strategy dictates having multiples wallets that we still need to manage.

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isaac pfp

metamask kinda feels like a password manager where u have a vault of multiple wallets. a double edged sword for sure but so far i’ve enjoyed having multiple wallets for diff uses.

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Diego Basch pfp

Interesting, I didn't see it like that. I thought of crypto identities more like skin in the game. You could have an identity where you stake something, as oppose to the endless disposable identities from web2.

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Brent Fitzgerald

This is a good take. I don’t think anyone has cracked this portable multi-identity use case well in web2 or web3, even though it’s so clearly a pattern we see everywhere online. Closest thing is a password manager or chrome profiles, all clunky though.

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