• restingOface@quokk.au
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    14 hours ago

    cryptography (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.

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      6 hours ago

      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. Kind of like how 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.

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      14 hours 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.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      Cryptocurrency uses cryptographics, the WEB uses cryptographics! Everone uses cryptographics.

      It’s a banana is a fruit moment.