[Ads-l] Physical Wallet, Hardware Wallet - PLAIN TEXT THIS TIME

[Robin Hamilton]

Worked for me -- thanks Jean!

I'll paste in the results below.

Unless they get re-translated into gobblydegook ...  Or should it be 
jabberwocky?

Robin Hamilton

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[please accept my] Apologies for the gobbledygook yesterday.
I hope the quote marks  and URLs in today's epistle are OK.
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From: Brian Hitchcock
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:28 PM
To: 'American Dialect Society'
Subject: Physical Wallet, Hardware Wallet

There needs to be a retronym for a traditional (e.g. leather) wallet that 
you can store actual credit cards in.
This retronym is necessitated by the existence of software-based digital 
wallets a.k.a. virtual wallets (Google Wallet, ApplePay, etc.).

There is a term hardware wallet, *(apparently not a retronym) which refers 
not to a traditional wallet, but to a folder (sometimes made of paper) that 
is intended to store thin payment-oriented hardware devices. For example, in 
one place, Bitcoin describes their Hardware Wallet as:  a Secure USB smart 
card based wallet for crypto-currencies (sic).  Apparently this means a 
wallet to hold smart-card-based USB devices supporting cryptocurrencies such 
as Bitcoin.
Elsewhere (on their own Wiki) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet
Bitcoin defines Hardware Wallet as a device that stores a part of a user's 
wallet securely in mostly-offline hardware. So the hardware wallet is both 
the physical folder and the electronic device it holds! (note that Bitcoin 
uses 'wallet' by itself to refer their software/digital/virtual wallet --  
bwh)

Wikipedia uses the term physical wallet in its article on BitCoin, to refer 
to something (made of any material) that can 'store the credentials 
necessary to spend bitcoins offline'.  However, Wikipedia does not show 
Physical Wallet in their list of retronyms 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retronyms . They list no retronyms 
starting with "physical", nor do they list Physical as a Retronymic 
Adjective.

It seems to me that physical wallet should be applied to any traditional 
wallet, but maybe we'll have to start calling them traditional wallets. 
Anyway, I don't believe either Physical Wallet or Hardware Wallet are in 
dictionaries yet. I'm not sure whether they have cropped up outside of 
techie or banking circles.
-->   Is anybody interested in tracking down E.D.U. for physical wallet 
and/or  hardware wallet, and possibly submitting them to the powers that be 
(however that might be done) for consideration as new terms?

* There is also now a variety of hardware wallet called HD Wallet (the HD 
stands for Hierarchical Deterministic), but that flavor of technology might 
be too ephemeral to join the vernacular.

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From: Wilson Gray
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 1:11 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Physical Wallet, Hardware Wallet - PLAIN TEXT THIS TIME

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On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Jean Snow <jean at uga.edu> wrote:

> Here's one site that you can paste the encoded block into and decode to
> text:
> http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Decode/Default.aspx
>

Fail: Invalid length for a Base-64 char array or string.

-- 
-Wilson
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