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Dear clickbait title editor, can you be more specific in distinguishing between cryptocurrency and crypto communities?
by rapnie 5y ago
Dear clickbait title editor, can you be more specific in distinguishing between cryptocurrency and crypto communities?
- Taek 5y agoSimilar to the change in definition for the word 'literally', the common parlance has evolved and 'crypto' now means cryptocurrency. A good test is to look at a sentence like "are you into crypto?". Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency, and most won't even try to disambiguate. Someone who wanted to ask if you are into cryptography would have disambiguated in the first place.
- fakesheriff 5y ago> Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency, There aren't many contexts where "crypto" means cryptography anymore. gcc -lcrypto Military grade crypto Anything else?
- pcthrowaway 5y agoMilitary grade crypto will refer to a new proof-of-weapon chain anyway.
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- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoI haven't opened the article but I'm guessing it's all about cryptocurrency
- davidgerard 5y agoI am sorry to inform you that "crypto" has been completely standard finance jargon for crypto-tokens traded for money for a few years now. Of course, we know that "crypto" really stands for "cryptosporidium". You can even substitute the full word into most articles about "crypto" tokens and it'll still be accurate.
- autophagian 5y agoAs painful as it is, I think that with general/popular tech media this particular ship has sailed quite a while ago