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I'm fine with it being a shibboleth for people deeply embedded in the cryptocurrency world, whereas for people in the wider world of software engineering (and hopefully the world at large) we stick with the original meaning.

It's also worth saying the prefix doesn't really make sense. "crypto"-"graphy" means hidden writing. "crypto"-"currency" means hidden currency, and nothing about Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. is hidden.



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