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Language changes whether we like it or not. Before cryptocurrencies, "crypto" meant cryptography, but with mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, the popular meaning of "crypto" has shifted to cryptocurrencies. If cryptocurrencies fall out of use maybe it will shift back.

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If we want to try to reclaim crypto (which feels like a moral cause to me, re-establishing a bigger idea over letting some ounk shit micro-corner of the big idea colonize the word), I'd suggest we need a new easy to use word to describe cryptocurrencies.

I dont have any candidates. But without a convenient alternative to describe the thing, change will be extremely slow.

I'd like to nominate "cryptoc", which I think is simple and just as easy to say, but I'm unsure to which internet-language standards board I should submit this proposal.

Yes, and a hacker is a horrible computer criminal.

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