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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by pera on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:45AM (#35885440)
Yeah the way he conflates "crypto" to refer both cryptography and cryptocurrency, and the rhetoric itself is quite odd: https://urbanists.social/@sam/110340265606422596

It's unfortunate because there are some valid points in his criticism.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by topaz0 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:24AM (#35887003)
"crypto" was used to mean cryptography long before it was used to mean currency, and in some circles still primarily means cryptography.
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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by JohnFen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:57PM (#35890927)
> in some circles still primarily means cryptography.

It still does in my circle. The overloading of "crypto", though, has become such a source of confusion and misunderstanding that I have stopped using it and just use the full word, be it cryptography or cryptocurrency, instead.

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