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The shifting semantics of "crypto" is incredibly frustrating; it makes it very hard to talk about in the technical sense.

I know that language is in a constant state of flux (my background happens to be linguistics) but it seems the mainstream media has a real penchant for butchering technical terms.

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It's also starting to get really weasel-wordy. There's a billion crypto scams going on these days. It's not the only thing going on, but there's a hell of a lot of old-school cons and then there's a hell of a lot of softer, less malicious scamming that is just based on over-confidence in a very buzzy trend.

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