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As much as I agree (and I upvoted you), I do think that ship has sailed.

Same as hacker has different meanings when used here on HN and on most news articles.

I'm fine with it being a shibboleth for people deeply embedded in the cryptocurrency world, whereas for people in the wider world of software engineering (and hopefully the world at large) we stick with the original meaning.

It's also worth saying the prefix doesn't really make sense. "crypto"-"graphy" means hidden writing. "crypto"-"currency" means hidden currency, and nothing about Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. is hidden.

I don't think it is going to work. Maybe in HN but as some other commenter said the ship has sailed. Most people don't know crypto and know cryptocurrencies. They associated them with that word.

At the risk of sounding pedantic too, crypto is short for both cryptography and cryptocurrency. Knowing which one it refers to is inferred from context.

I’ll go one further and call the cryptocommodities.