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notbylght on x

https://paragraph.xyz/@lght.eth/gentrifying-wallets-in-hopes-that-we-actually-get-the-people-who-would-benefit-most-from-the-tech-to-adopt-it

if we're thinking about the language of wallets

blockspace babe. cultural attaché from ‘06 twitter. adjacent possible fanatic 🌐 UTC–5

that array of behavioral primitives are enabled by the private keys stored by the wallet. if we're doing the work and bridging the gap to those who haven't come to blockspace yet, the choice of a better word is obvious:

keys

we don't leave our house without our keys. we may have more than one. we carry them in order to:

- authenticate to buildings and other tools (safe deposit boxes, post boxes, cars)
- enable the stock and flow of value (put gold in a vault, exchange cash for a sandwich)

this is why the work @ledgerofficial has been doing is so important. because we carry keys on us, they should have an aesthetic appeal

an interesting second-order effect of using keys as the term is that it shifts the valence in the correct direction:

if one is serious about being onchain one ought to be using cold storage (maybe cool storage is a better term for the maxis who bury steel phrase backups in their yards). relying solely on one's windows or ios installs to hold up is asking to get rugged. babes who aren't already here don't understand that, and they shouldn't have to tbh.

all the more reason then to use a term for one of our oldest tools of physical security. of sovereignty. of agency

> a wallet is the foundation point for desired consumer behavior. but is wallet the right term? -- @lght.eth 

the use cases listed collapse to a few behavioral primitives:

- store value
- operate on value
- express identity

(storage and web browsing are technical things the user doesn't think about. same to become true for swap, yield, and layer switching but that will take time)

we're curious to see custom contract creation in a wallet. would love examples