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Re:Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big ... by Taek on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:26AM (#28098421)
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.

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Re:Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big ... by fakesheriff on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:44AM (#28099451)
> 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?

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Re:Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big ... by pcthrowaway on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:11PM (#28102360)
Military grade crypto will refer to a new proof-of-weapon chain anyway.
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