Keychain not wallet - thoughts?
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So I was listening to this the other day and he brought up a good point about the terminology used in crypto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur037LYsb8M (at about 15min) The idea is that our wallets are more like keychains than wallets and by calling them wallets new users are confused by their abilities. What if we started calling the Feathercoin wallet a keychain? The community is small enough at this point that a change like that could happen pretty easily. Maybe it would be enough of a change to bring new users more easily, get the Feathercoin name out there again, and maybe start a wave of making crypto more user friendly. The video also mentions other things that dont make sense but this could be the easiest to change.
Or on the other hand do we just leave things as is and people get used to a new term, like a computer mouse in that it has nothing to do with an animal mouse.
Thoughts?
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@AmDD said:
So I was listening to this the other day and he brought up a good point about the terminology used in crypto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur037LYsb8M (at about 15min) The idea is that our wallets are more like keychains than wallets and by calling them wallets new users are confused by their abilities. What if we started calling the Feathercoin wallet a keychain? The community is small enough at this point that a change like that could happen pretty easily. Maybe it would be enough of a change to bring new users more easily, get the Feathercoin name out there again, and maybe start a wave of making crypto more user friendly. The video also mentions other things that dont make sense but this could be the easiest to change.
Or on the other hand do we just leave things as is and people get used to a new term, like a computer mouse in that it has nothing to do with an animal mouse.
Thoughts?
I think terminology is well established.
Yes, technically coins are not in wallet but you unlock them from blockchain.
However if you look at your wallet it looks like a wallet and function like a wallet.
I would stick with the wallet as everybody else. -
@mirrax said:
@AmDD said:
So I was listening to this the other day and he brought up a good point about the terminology used in crypto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur037LYsb8M (at about 15min) The idea is that our wallets are more like keychains than wallets and by calling them wallets new users are confused by their abilities. What if we started calling the Feathercoin wallet a keychain? The community is small enough at this point that a change like that could happen pretty easily. Maybe it would be enough of a change to bring new users more easily, get the Feathercoin name out there again, and maybe start a wave of making crypto more user friendly. The video also mentions other things that dont make sense but this could be the easiest to change.
Or on the other hand do we just leave things as is and people get used to a new term, like a computer mouse in that it has nothing to do with an animal mouse.
Thoughts?
I think terminology is well established.
Yes, technically coins are not in wallet but you unlock them from blockchain.
However if you look at your wallet it looks like a wallet and function like a wallet.
I would stick with the wallet as everybody else.Really? Because I think its well established for those in the community which are normally techie users. For the general public its hard to understand.
Why didnt they call credit cards wallets? They ‘hold money’', just like a wallet does.
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We all know the Blockchain was kickstarted by using it to produce “money”. As money has obvious value and it therefore needs “security”, it’s a good start point to evolve the right characteristics for a secure vault.
Whilst it will likely cause more confusion to change the description of the wallet to Keychain. The wallet is only part of the Blockchain and it is the Feathercoind daemon that is managing the “Blockchain” and Mining / Fault detection protocols that is the fundamental development that needs to occur.
Initially the wallet was required and also fulfilled the mining criteria, now most Bitcoin wallets used are probably not the Bitcoin Core, which means it is the daemon that is Bitcoins real “core”.
However, I think the idea of what the Keychain might put across and what that is in the eyes of the “Public” is complementary, and worth pursuing. Maybe FTC should consider Technical development of the “Keychain” version of the “wallet” which is directed to “other” services.
I would like to see some brainstorming on what services a FTC Keychain might contain or market to. For instance an Education market, where an exam board or Education to document your qualifications officially at very low cost in the FTC Keychain …
FTC could argue that we have maintained an open source secure network that would include many cpoies of secured data all over the world, and FTC-Keychain could make public or limit the data access, without any central server …
