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The context is that the economist wrote a piece on "most powerful people in crypto", so isn't it a bit weird that people assume these people to be cryptographer
by timdaub 5y ago
The context is that the economist wrote a piece on "most powerful people in crypto", so isn't it a bit weird that people assume these people to be cryptographers? Economist, crypto?
- asimpletune 5y agoYeah you're right, that was the original context, but then in this thread people also changed the context and were talking about the word crypto in general. It's not super controversial, and as was mentioned somewhere above no one really gets confused when we're talking about cryptography or when we're talking about cryptocurrency - or for that matter when we're talking about the golang crypto package. So, let me just say, I'm not trying to weirdly argue with by saying you're right, and still the word can be overloaded. Idk language is weird. Haha in 20 years maybe crypto will be abject failure and it'll become synonymous with pumping and dumping, like "pyramid" scheme, or maybe it'll be a huge success the likes of which no one has ever seen and will be used in that way in certain contexts.