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I'm going to blow your mind... the "crypto" in cryptocurrency is from cryptography, of which it is a subset.

• UncleMeat 5y ago
  Sort of. Little of the work being done in the cryptocurrency space is actually applied cryptography. The big innovation of proof-of-work consensus isn't using cryptography to achieve trustlessness. Yeah there are digital signatures. Hooray.
  • mike_d 5y ago
    The proof of work in bitcoin was originally a cryptographic primitive designed to prevent email spam.
  • ricochet11 5y ago
    I would argue that pretty much all of the recent (past 5 years) advances in work on zkproofs is researched/funded/applied by cryptocurrency community. and imo this is the most important work in cryptography that is happening, actually developing secure general computation. You might not like cryptocurrencies but to dismiss this is silly. The "crypto means cryptography" motto also trivializes all the prior work, cryptography and ideas of digital tokens/currencies have been tied together for decades. https://zkp.science/ https://zkp.science/ https://zkproof.org/ https://zkproof.org/ https://github.com/0xPARC https://github.com/0xPARC https://github.com/iden3/circom https://github.com/iden3/circom