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The twitter thread mostly uses the full term "cryptocurrency", which is not ambigous. Using the term "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrency is amigous and misleadi

• itisit 5y ago
  > Using the term "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrency is amigous and misleading. To whom? “Crypto” is the colloquial shorthand for “cryptocurrency”. And I believe those thinking otherwise are reacting to the new usage encroaching on the old. Petty hill to die on…
  • adambatkin 5y ago
    The "crypto" world, as in Cryptography has far more practitioners and far more hardware and software than cryptocurrency. And most of of the world's communications (among other things) rely on "crypto" as in Cryptography. The "old" usage (as you put it) remains orders of magnitude more instrumental to all of our lives than blockchain technologies (which is a far more accurate name). And will remain so, for the rest of all of our lives.
  • shkkmo 5y ago
    > To whom? To everyone outside the cryptocurrency social bubble. > And I believe those thinking otherwise are reacting to the new usage encroaching on the old. Petty hill to die on… I think it is pretty silly to deliberately use an ambiguous term when better ones exist.