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To be fair, crypto also doesn’t mean cryptography, but in programming circles they are often used as synonyms. Crypto just means hidden.
by 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 agoOf 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.