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It's not a hijack, it's just how trends and language work. If you want "crypto" to be used for something else, you have to make that something else. Crypto com
by beaner 9y ago
It's not a hijack, it's just how trends and language work.
If you want "crypto" to be used for something else, you have to make that something else. Crypto communication, crypto news, etc. If "crypto currency" is the only common term to start with "crypto" that most people know about, it's going to be shortened, and represent that one thing.
Crypto currency is more top-of-mind to the population at large, than cryptography as a general category. If there are more specific implementations of useful crypto that average people use as a product (like currency, not, say, SSL), then crypto will be detached from the concepts and come to represent all of them (cryptography) again.
- coldtea 9y ago>It's not a hijack, it's just how trends and language work. Not all trends and language changes are good. N-word was trending once too, to give an extreme example.
- loup-vaillant 9y ago> If there are more specific implementations of useful crypto that average people use as a product Except that encryption is rarely used explicitly. We see this greed padlock, maybe. But encryption is rarely a product. It's part of other products (web browsers, messengers…). I doubt cryptography will become more visible through that venue. People need some level of education to even notice they're using encryption, signatures, and certificates pretty much all the time.