"Crypto" has a different meaning among different audiences. I know many in cryptocurrency say, "Sorry guys, that's OUR term now" but in a diverse audience like HN (many of which work with crypto libraries on a regular basis) I don't think you can make that assumption.
Full stack has also a widely different meaning depending on who you ask in HN. Most people here may think the stack goes from the app server to the frontend. The stack is much, much more than that. So most people use it wrong.
No one cares. It's not that important. Context is everything. Crypto is well understood in this context to be cryptocurrency.
I don't see how this is a good anal (shortened form of analogy) as I've never once heard or seen people use that as a short form. If it became widely used and accepted then sure, it would be just as correct.
"Crypto" as a term is widely used now to mean both cryptography and cryptocurrency.
“Correct” is a tricky thing in language. There’s basically no difference between “widely used” and “correct”. My guess is that the tech community will generally resist using “crypto” to mean “cryptocurrency” while the general public might (though hopefully won’t) adopt it anyway. If so, it'll end up just like the word “hacker”.
While true, it would be really great (although I think its too late) if people would use the term "Cryptocurrencies" instead of "Crypto", since Crypto used to mean cryptography.
Pretty much its just like the hacker v cracker debate.
"the hacker v cracker debate" is (in my mind at least) over. There were and are many people who don't like the way the word "hacker" is used, but so what? Language changes, slang evolves. "Crypto" used to only mean one thing, now it means two. What's really the big deal about that?