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Crypto is not cryptocurrency (cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com)
16 points by baby on Dec 14, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments


While I sympathise with the intent, to stop this particular debasement of language, I doubt this is an effective way to go about it. It's an anonymous voice shouting into the void.

I think admonishing people to speak and write properly is a genuinely worthy pursuit. If you've got, say, a tech blog or forum, you can set language-policing posting guidelines. Some people might complain, but just ban them (if they're persistent/stubborn offenders.)


But you do realize that "cryptocurrency" might very well be THE everyday use product/experiment that successfully demonstrates and educates the average human on the social implications of 'Crypto'.

Don't be so quick to distance your self from it.


100% agreed. Also I hate lmgtfy links which they used on this page.


Did you really need font-awesome, bluma and Open Sans for that website ?


Sure just like "hackers" are the good guys and "crackers" are the bad guys.


Seems accurate to me, but people will be too lazy to type all of that every time.


altcoin works as well


That ship sailed a while ago.


How can I trust this is correct? Site ironically has no TLS


wow this is not helpful at all


Reminds me of the good old “the bad guys are not hackers, they are crackers!” rants.




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