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Crypto means cryptography, stop using it to talk about cryptocurrency.
good luck, I'm sure this comment will change how everyone talks from now on.
Crypto means hidden, stop using it to talk about cryptography.
Crypto currencies doesn't mean "hidden currency", it means currency based on cryptography.
Do you mean to say that crypto is based on crypto? Crazy!
They meant that choosing one possible definition and saying it’s what the word means is stupid. Words mean pretty much what everyone agrees they mean. Look at all the words that have basically flipped definitions since their inception. Just because the modern derivative of a word means something literally everyone understands but is slightly different than what it used to mean doesn’t mean the oldest answer is the correct one. Unwad your jock.
It's also sometimes used as shorthand for crypto-orchidism -undescended testicles.
Ahh, so... crypto, which is based on crypto, can be used to pay for treatments to crypto.
Got it.
Is it not clear which definition of Crypto he's using?
Linus coming out against cryptography seems so unrealistically silly to me that it's not even worth considering.
The security of Linux 2000 will be based entirely on steganography, Linux founder announces
Yeah, that headline is very misleading. Crypto(graphy) is essential for the digital world to exist whereas the other stuff is a pyramid & money laundering scheme.
It's not "misleading," because the vast majority of people understand what the current colloquial use of crypto is.
Not the nerds on Lemmy.
A certain irony in a synonym for "secret" being a term everyone's implicitly familiar with.
It’s useful for buying drugs online on the dark web so I for one like it
my man
All the fentanyl you can snort.
Which market are people using nowadays? I haven't kept up to speed over the last few years.
"Have you invested in crypto?"
Do you think anyone anywhere will misunderstand this as investing in cryptographic research/development?
The mainstream usage of the word isn't always aligned with what is good for society or even the original usage of the word.
I guess I'm getting old then 😜
Cryptocurrency is a currency based on cryptographic keys.
Never heard it commonly used as a short form for "cryptography". But did hear it commonly used for "Cryptocurrency". Why not let the morons have it? Do you have a scam running that relies on "Crypto" being short for "Cryptography"? Using "cool" brevs is the mark of the amateur anyway, if someone said "crypto" to me when he meant cryptography, I'd forever judge them as a silly person.
Before 2010 it was almost exclusively used to refer to cryptography, outside of some even more niche fields (parts of biology, political sciences, etc)
I run /r/crypto on reddit, for cryptography, and the spam is horrendous and the flood of idiots is never ending
You are aware that the "crypto" part of cryptocurrency is short for cryptographic, right?
No I’m not
Ah ok, sorry
Wait.. whose the moron here? Lol
https://cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com/
language is contextual and changes over time, stop telling people how to communicate with one another.
That's like asking people to say kilograms instead of kilos
Ok based upon one dude's opinion I'll purposely create a communication problem between me and anyone who ever tries to discuss this stuff with me.
Or I could just toss this opinion in the garbage...
Decisions decisions