The “wallet” metaphor for Web3 is unraveling much faster than the “document” metaphor did.
There’s probably going to be stuff like a “wallet object model” (WOM) and a WalletScript to manipulate it like JavaScript, for the DOM, etc.
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In Web1/2, “pages” that lived on servers wrote “cookies” on clients allowing for stateful personalization/customization. In Web3, you bake/collect your own cookies. The “cookies” live on the blockchain and you claim state by indirection. “These particular cookies are me.” 🤔
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It’s like workplace shared refrigerators where you label your food. Except your lunch sandwich is locked with your key so only you can eat it.
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Microsoft tried for years to make “passport” happen and Apple had “keychain” 🤔🤔
Not sure how those fit into this picture.
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passport > wallet
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Wallets are better than username/password but kinda more stressful. Now you have to secure your passphrase for life with no recourse. Lose the wallet, lose everything keyed to it. With great self-custody comes great responsibility.
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I suspect kyc will evolve to use centralized identity oracles (twitter, drivers license) to update lost wallet addresses on services that just need it for signing in, but otherwise use offchain custody so lost wallets are no big deal.
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This part of Web3 will just be decentralization as “centralization, with extra steps” but still many benefits.
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Part of the reason the metaphor is unraveling faster is that we all simply have a lot more experience with UX metaphors.
It took really long for the document metaphor to yield to the stream metaphor in part because we doubled down hard on it early. Scrollbars, headlines, margins
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Yeah… worries me a bit. If I were conspiracy minded I’d suspect Web3 was a devious FAANG plot to externalize opsec work to unpaid users. Shadow labor. Like pensions being replaced by 401ks. Defined benefit —> defined contribution. Fortunately I’m not conspiracy minded.
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The thing we learned about single-log in isn't that it lets Ol' Zuck know a wee bit too much about you, it's that it creates an enormous point of failure where one mistake with a less-than-trustworthy handshake compromises every single connected service you use.
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It really breaks down when you're talking about a hardware wallet. There's nothing on the wallet. The wallet is just a way to securely store your keys. Your wallet is on the blockchain.
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