Similar to the change in definition for the word 'literally', the common parlance has evolved and 'crypto' now means cryptocurrency.

A good test is to look at a sentence like "are you into crypto?". Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency, and most won't even try to disambiguate. Someone who wanted to ask if you are into cryptography would have disambiguated in the first place.

> Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency,

There aren't many contexts where "crypto" means cryptography anymore.

gcc -lcrypto

Military grade crypto

Anything else?

Military grade crypto will refer to a new proof-of-weapon chain anyway.

As painful as it is, I think that with general/popular tech media this particular ship has sailed quite a while ago

I haven't opened the article but I'm guessing it's all about cryptocurrency

I am sorry to inform you that "crypto" has been completely standard finance jargon for crypto-tokens traded for money for a few years now.

Of course, we know that "crypto" really stands for "cryptosporidium". You can even substitute the full word into most articles about "crypto" tokens and it'll still be accurate.