> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography" I have to assume this is sarcasm, right? That's literall

> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography" I have to assume this is sarcasm, right? That's literally what "crypto" has always meant for decades, cryptography. The Crypto conference started in 1981 for instance. https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/