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Can the title be updated to say 'cryptocurrency' rather than 'crypto'? http://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com http://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
by CiPHPerCoder 8y ago
Can the title be updated to say 'cryptocurrency' rather than 'crypto'?
http://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com http://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com
- wanderfowl 8y agoAgreed. As pointless as railing against language change is, it bothers me a bit that 'crypto' has come to be synonymous with a very small (yet very loud) area of the application of Cryptography. But this too shall pass.
- owlninja 8y agoIf cryptography was exciting to the non-IT crowd it would still hold the belt, but...
- rando444 8y agoI think you mean that we'll come to accept it, correct? Much like we accept that most people say 'USB' when they mean memory stick, or when someone says the word 'microwave' we assume they are talking about the metal oven that cooks their food.
- asasidh 8y agowhen enough people start to say crypto to mean cryptocurrency, the meaning will change.
- jacobr 8y agoWhich type of cryptography investments do you think readers will confuse this with?
- CiPHPerCoder 8y agoThe other day someone invested $50MM into a non-profit to further the development of Signal/WhatsApp, two phone apps that provide end-to-end encryption for billions of people around the world. That's a crypto investment that has nothing to do with blockchainiacs.
- aviv 8y agoWhy do people get so pedantic over a title? Even if it is confusing at first - so what? I never understood the need to correct such minor details...
- TomK32 8y agoGerman here, we really need some tool to keep track of our bigram tables. Last time my granddad lost one it didn't end well...