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restingOface@quokk.au 5 days agocryptography (not the cryptocurrency-kind)
This may be pedantic, but that is the cryptocurrency kind. The “crypto” in “cryptocurrency” literally comes from the term “cryptography”. It is currency that is secured by cryptographic functions.
Cryptocurrency is cryptography, but cryptography isn’t cryptocurrency.
There’s a good reason to note that a term that most uninformed people might assume is unrelated to a shitty thing people hate. There’s a reason a lot of shit we used to call AI has to be clarified as non-llm because the llms have become the initial connotation to AI.
Cryptocurrency uses cryptographics, the WEB uses cryptographics! Everone uses cryptographics.
It’s a banana is a fruit moment.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 5 days ago
I’m well aware.
Most cryptocurrency pushers are less interested in the underlying cryptographic fundamentals, however.
Cryptography is undeniably cool. Cryptocurrency is undeniably not cool.