Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry utterly depends on it

Re:Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry ... by davidgerard on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:51PM (#25410699)

I regret to inform everyone that "crypto" for "cryptocurrency" is standard finance jargon now.

If it makes you feel better, you can replace it with "cryptosporidium" and it'll still be correct.

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Re:Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry ... by contravariant on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:06PM (#25410839)

Okay, now I want to know how long this has been part of the wikipedia article.

>Cryptosporidium, sometimes informally called crypto, is a genus of apicomplexan parasitic alveolates that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis) with or without a persistent cough (respiratory cryptosporidiosis) in both immunocompetent and immunodeficient humans.[1]

(emphasis mine)

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Re:Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry ... by davidgerard on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:13PM (#25410881)

CDC's been calling it that for a while https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/crypto/index.html

Cryptocurrency: not even chlorine can clear it up

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Re:Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry ... by Tomte on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:21AM (#25414388)

Cryptozoology is the field where you try to keep abreast of all those new cryptocurrencies. ;-)

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