'Crypto' Meaning Debate
The cluster revolves around debates over whether 'crypto' refers to cryptography or cryptocurrencies, with many users expressing frustration at the term's appropriation by cryptocurrency contexts causing confusion.
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"crypto" means cryptography, not cryptocurrencies. Please stop appropriating the word.
Where by "crypto" you mean "cryptocurrencies", rather than the more common "cryptography" (which I think is still overwhelmingly appreciated here), right?
Methinks you're committing the etymological fallacy. Crypto is not cryptography. Crypto is a specific subset of cryptography, quite far removed (in purpose, if not in technology) from normal cryptography.
"Crypto" in context clearly means cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
Sadly crypto in this context refers to cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.
"crypto means cryptography" is reactionary.
Be careful, you're about to be berated for using "Crypto" in reference to Cryptocurrency instead of Cryptography :)
crypto should not mean cryptocurrency it should mean cryptography
I really dislike"crypto" referring to "crytocurrencies" and not "cryptography".
Just to avoid the confusion, "crypto" means cryptography not currency in this context. I had to check myself.