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Why?

If you click the article you immediately find out.

If you click the comments, even if it's not written out, context clues gets you pretty far in figuring that out.

So either way it's one click to find out.

I was stating my initial interpretation from the title alone.

It should be a given that responding in a chain with the OP stating 'By crypto they mean cryptography here.' I have ascertained the 'crypto' in the title now refers to cryptography.

You want a cookie? Where did I imply you didn't know?

My point is with or without this comment which now appears for every reference of "crypto" you would find out very easily.

I spelled out why it wouldn't have taken more than 5 seconds for anyone to realize, even if the comment wasn't there.

You now flagged comment was explaining ways one could check. I was showing this explanation was redundant.

I forget not everyone is capable of understanding subtext. The subtext of explaining how trivial it is to check, is that the comment is not needed for every single post with the word crypto

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