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Whatever happens, can we fucking stop to shorten them to crypto!? Crypto does not mean cryptocurrency, for God’s sake!!! https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives

• occamrazor 9y ago
  To be fair, crypto also doesn’t mean cryptography, but in programming circles they are often used as synonyms. Crypto just means hidden.
  • camillomiller 9y ago
    Of course, it's from Greek. I'm not saying it should be used to mean cryptography, nobody's claiming that. I'm just saying that throwing it around as a shortened version of cryptocurrency is the most ill-conceived usage you could possibly make of it. Both from an etymological and lexical standpoint.