Re:Cryptocurrency will always be political
by StavrosK on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:34AM
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This is only tangential, but I really hate everyone calling cryptocurrencies "crypto" (and Wikipedia "wiki"). These words had meaning before, you know, and it's really confusing if you start overwriting a term. "currency" was added to "crypto" to form "cryptocurrency" because the word meant something already.
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urm, it did?
i thought it was just a shorthand for cryptography previously?
don't see a problem with shortening something else to the same string, as both are just terms you use because you're to lazy to actually spell it out.