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This is only tangential, but I really hate everyone calling cryptocurrencies "crypto" (and Wikipedia "wiki"). These words had meaning before, you know, and it's really confusing if you start overwriting a term. "currency" was added to "crypto" to form "cryptocurrency" because the word meant something already.

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urm, it did?

i thought it was just a shorthand for cryptography previously?

don't see a problem with shortening something else to the same string, as both are just terms you use because you're to lazy to actually spell it out.

Crypto is the new cyber.

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