@hex @ehashman "Crypto" referred to "cryptography" for a long time before referring to "crypto[graphy-based ]currency" as a specific application, so people who still use it in that form might want to explain clearly that this is their usage of the term, for one thing

@cwebber @ehashman Gotcha. I didn't realize this was disambiguating cryptocurrency from cryptography. There are still other areas where crypto (as a prefix) is used but has anything to do with cryptography. Cryptozoology comes to mind.

@hex @ehashman Fair!

@hex @cwebber also, cryptosporidium

@cwebber cryptocurrency is sort of like cryptozoology, right?

@agmlego @ehashman Ahahaha, I also grew up in milwaukee and you know now I'm having flashbacks to thinking the same thing the first time I started learning about cryptography

@cwebber @ehashman It was...formative to a young kid.

@agmlego @ehashman we're only drinking tea now, kids

@cwebber @ehashman Yeah, I do not recall a *lot*, but there were apparently shortages of storebought gallons of water, so we lived on milk and distilled bought from the hardware store

@agmlego @cwebber I must admit this was much more pleasant than what I was expecting in my mentions while waiting for the messages to load

@ehashman @cwebber I was not going to go into detail on effects. ;-P