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The irony of your comment might kill me.
You know crypto doesn’t just mean coins… right? It’s a whole concept that applies to lots of things outside of cryptocurrency.
That would be general purpose cryptography, and is never abbreviated to crypto.
“Crypto” can encompass things that aren’t “coins” though—like land deeds. It’s just a protocol to secure & verify ownership in a decentralized way.
My point is, the actual concept of it absolutely could be an intellectual conversation. Their confidently ignorant quip about what qualifies is silly.
Three-card monte has many different names too.
I mean, it was before Bitcoin came along.
It's rather like the hacker/cracker(defunct) thing.