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by wrinkl3 3103 days ago
That's a lost battle. At this stage a lot more people are aware of cryptocurrencies than of the concept of Cryptography, and slang like that always follows the majority consensus.
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Everyone I know that refers to cryptocurrencies as "cryptos" are definitely aware that there is more to cryptography than tokens.

It absolutely is a battle we can win.

What battles has linguistic prescriptivism ever won?
literally every single one of them.