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optimuspaul

I don't accept crypto to mean cryptocurrency.

It's like saying butter when you mean butterscotch. Doesn't mean the same thing and shouldn't.

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99% of the population would have never uttered the word "cryptography" before "cryptocurrencies" started to catch on.

In either case, crypto is an abbreviation.

This is being shown on HN, not Facebook.

@criddell: ok, carry on trying to keep the global slang out of your little utopic garden.

Unfortunately, the world could care less about what you personally accept.

> could care less

Bait?

May be referencing https://xkcd.com/1576/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042

And vice versa. Though actually, I can care less than I care about "what the world accepts", for example about some person speaking for the world. If you accept it, make your case; if you don't, leave "the world" out of it.

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