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Re:Cryptocurrency Startup School by chrisseaton on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:51AM (#21144929)
> a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app

But cryptography underpins all the killer apps! If you need to communicate, then you need cryptography.

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Re:Cryptocurrency Startup School by simias on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:57AM (#21144955)
This is about cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.
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Re:Cryptocurrency Startup School by notacoward on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:16AM (#21146553)
Yes, isn't it annoying how the contraction "crypto" has been taken over by one very specific (and IMO rather pedestrian) application of cryptography, after decades of more general use? GP illustrates exactly why this is so problematic.
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