[Ads-l] Physical Wallet & Hardware Wallet (absolutely sure it's plain ASCII this time)

[Dan Goncharoff]

There's billfold to reflect the money-holding role of a wallet.

If we need to reflect the prevalance of cards, how about 'cardfold'?

DanG

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>
wrote:

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> Subject:      Physical Wallet & Hardware Wallet  (absolutely sure it's
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>               ASCII this time)
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> Apologies for the gobbledygook earlier.  Michael Quinion got me
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> d out on "encoding".
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> There needs to be a retronym for a traditional (e.g. leather) wallet that
> y=
> ou can store actual credit cards in. This retronym is necessitated by the
> e=
> xistence of software-based digital wallets a.k.a. virtual wallets (Google
> W=
> allet, ApplePay, etc.).=20
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> 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
> sm=
> art card based wallet for crypto-currencies (sic).  Apparently this means
> a=
>  wallet to hold smart-card-based USB devices (hardware) which support
> crypt=
> ocurrencies (such as Bitcoin).   Elsewhere (on their own Wiki -
> https://en.=
> bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet  ), Bitcoin defines Hardware Wallet as "a
> d=
> evice that stores a part of a user's wallet securely in mostly-offline
> hard=
> ware." So the hardware wallet apparent refers either to the physical
> folder=
>  or to the electronic device it holds! (note that Bitcoin uses 'Wallet' by
> =
> itself to refer their software/digital/virtual wallet -- bwh)=20
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> There is also now a variety of hardware wallet called HD Wallet (the HD
> sta=
> nds for Hierarchical Deterministic, which IIUC has to do with the
> encryptio=
> n method for credentials), but that sample of tech argot might be too
> esote=
> ric or ephemeral  to join the vernacular.
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> Wikipedia uses the term Physical Wallet in its article on BitCoin, to
> refer=
>  to something (made of any material) that can 'store the credentials
> necess=
> ary to spend bitcoins offline' (This corresponds to one of Bitcoin's
> defini=
> tions for Hardware Wallet, above.) However, Wikipedia does not show
> Physica=
> l 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.
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> It seems to me that Physical Wallet should be applied to any traditional
> wa=
> llet, but maybe we'll have to start calling them Traditional Wallets, or
> so=
> mething else. Anyway, I don't believe either Physical Wallet or Hardware
> Wa=
> llet are in dictionaries yet. I'm not sure whether they have cropped up
> out=
> side of computer-tech or banking circles.=20
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> -->   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
> (h=
> owever that might be done) for consideration as new terms? =20
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