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Crypto means cryptography!
by jesprenj 5y ago
Crypto means cryptography!
- catlifeonmars 5y agoThank you! I always click on the HN articles with “crypto” in the title thinking I’m about to read about information manipulation using modular arithmetic and instead…
- tasuki 5y agoReally, you thought a post titled "Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism" would be about information manipulation using modular arithmetic? It was an interesting interview, Yanis Varoufakis is quite thoughtful.
- catlifeonmars 4y agoOne can always hope…
- dundarious 5y agoAt this point it's a lost cause. Recently, I tried to search for details regarding a new release of the go x/crypto package, and unfortunately all the results were related to cryptocurrencies, etc. Somewhat similarly, I like to use quotation as the noun, and quote as the verb and never the noun, but it's a totally lost cause, not even worth mentally noting when others use quote as the noun, never mind "correcting" them. Measured by usage, the consensus has shifted.
- mchaver 5y agoLanguage changes whether we like it or not. Before cryptocurrencies, "crypto" meant cryptography, but with mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, the popular meaning of "crypto" has shifted to cryptocurrencies. If cryptocurrencies fall out of use maybe it will shift back.
- rektide 5y agoIf we want to try to reclaim crypto (which feels like a moral cause to me, re-establishing a bigger idea over letting some ounk shit micro-corner of the big idea colonize the word), I'd suggest we need a new easy to use word to describe cryptocurrencies. I dont have any candidates. But without a convenient alternative to describe the thing, change will be extremely slow.
- akubera 5y agoI'd like to nominate "cryptoc", which I think is simple and just as easy to say, but I'm unsure to which internet-language standards board I should submit this proposal.
- drewcoo 5y agoYes, and a hacker is a horrible computer criminal.
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