Hacker News Reader

Given the recent decline in interest in both NFTs and cryptocurrency in general, I'd say within the next 5 years or so we'll be able to go back to using "crypto" to mean "cryptography" without much fear of confusion.

Maybe we should call all those products "cryptids".

"decline in interest" seems incorrect

https://dune.com/rchen8/opensea

looks like up and to the right

The infectious disease people would like a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidiosis

I think we’d be all OK if this was the crypto we were outlawing.

HN probably could return to "crypto" and "cryptocurrency"; the rest of the world will keep on being "crypto" and "cryptography". Orders of magnitude more people care about cryptocurrencies than cryptography.