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Re:What are some examples of inefficient markets? by jolmg on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:40PM (#22272767)
Is there money in crypto? I thought the industry heavily favored open source crypto software like ssh, openssl, gpg, etc. Or are you talking about stuff like Protonmail that incorporate crypto into their services, like how they advertise that their client encrypts mail before sending it to their server?
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Re:What are some examples of inefficient markets? by 0x31a on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:43PM (#22272788)
The parent post is referring to cryptocurrencies, not cryptography in general.
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Re:What are some examples of inefficient markets? by jolmg on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:10PM (#22272937)
It's interesting how the word-root crypto (meaning "hidden" or "secret") is used as a prefix to mean "cryptographic", but when used alone it's supposed to somehow mean currencies, as if there were some part of the word-root "crypto" that is related to currencies.

If "cryptocurrency" is too long, can't one say "currency"? It seems more correct.

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