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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by occamrazor on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:10AM (#15986205)
To be fair, crypto also doesn’t mean cryptography, but in programming circles they are often used as synonyms.

Crypto just means hidden.

Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk by camillomiller on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:35AM (#15986767)
Of course, it's from Greek. I'm not saying it should be used to mean cryptography, nobody's claiming that. I'm just saying that throwing it around as a shortened version of cryptocurrency is the most ill-conceived usage you could possibly make of it. Both from an etymological and lexical standpoint.