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Most people can read "unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector" as everything except bitcoin. A minority of people will read it as "all crypto", and if you're reading it as "only shitcoins" you're probably a little unsavoury yourself.

Yea what this guy said ^

I was at a hackathon and this big shot legal person from NY was telling me about a hot crypto company and them using Haskell was like the first thing he told me. In fact, all he told me was they raised a bunch of money in an ICO and they use Haskell. And then he sat there waiting for me to be impressed

Haskell always struck me as a language you'd want to use to feel superior to the people who code in JS and python, and crypto always struck me as a field you'd want to work in to feel superior to the people who work in industries that actually generate profits.

Also, another possible reason is that many crypto people tend to confuse complexity with ingenuity. While the bitcoin whitepaper tries to make a complex topic as simple as possible, a great many crypto companies and people purposely use language that is needlessly convoluted and verbose.

Perhaps they're doing it on purpose to seem smarter?