Traditional wallets are stuffed full of cash, credit cards, debit cards, and identification. Crypto wallets have only held public and private keys needed to trade cryptocurrencies. Users are increasingly filling their crypto wallets with NFTs and other digital assets. It won’t be long before digital wallets hold crypto, NFTs, digital assets, and your credit cards and identity verification. The only physical wallets you’ll see will be in museums. Why communicators and their clients/employers should care is the subject of this short midweek episode.

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The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, April 22.

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Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

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Link from this report:

• Stop Calling it a Wallet
• The Crypto Wallet: Unlocking Digital Identity
• Microsoft to integrate crypto wallet into browser
• Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Senate to ban your crypto wallet
• The Wallet Wars Are Not About Money, They Are About Identity
• Over a third of UK’s online transactions used digital wallets | Computer Weekly
• Playing With Crypto? You’ll Need a Wallet (or Several)

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