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Re: Show HN: Hacker News for cryptocurrency and Blockchain

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Post by abhutra »

sergers wrote: post #20
abhutra wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True that. But now the title sounds like a clickbait :( (Had no intention of that)

I was more joking about HN constantly have front page on cryptocurrencies/blockchain, i don't need a dedicated one lol as there's more than I need(but I am specifically not interested in that I am sure others are)

Hahaha, I agree to that too. Maybe this could help to reduce that.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News for cryptocurrency and Blockchain

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Post by dsacco »

Look, I understand this might become like the "hacker" debate, but can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? We're coming to the point where people refer to these currencies as "cryptos".

The cryptography of digital currencies is a very small portion of the entire field, and the term is being gradually co-opted to refer to that specific portion.

The reason I bring this up is because I find the choice in domain name unfortunate. You could have used something like blockchain.study. The more we have this term co-opted the more often we'll search crypto and have the engine spit out a bunch of cryptocurrency related results when we're not necessarily looking for those.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News for cryptocurrency and Blockchain

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Post by grzm »

dsacco wrote: post #27

Look, I understand this might become like the "hacker" debate, but can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? We're coming to the point where people refer to these currencies as "cryptos". The cryptography of digital currencies is a very small portion of the entire field, and the term is being gradually co-opted to refer to that specific portion. The reason I bring this…

> can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"?

I'm afraid that train has left the station. Can anyone think of a situation where such a language reversal has occurred?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News for cryptocurrency and Blockchain

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Post by ashaney »

grzm wrote: post #28
dsacco wrote: post #27

Look, I understand this might become like the "hacker" debate, but can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? We're coming to the point where people refer to these currencies as "cryptos". The cryptography of digital currencies is a very small portion of the entire field, and the term is being gradually co-opted to refer to that specific portion. The reason I bring this…

> can we please stop referring to blockchain and digital currencies with the term, "crypto"? I'm afraid that train has left the station. Can anyone think of a situation where such a language reversal has occurred?

Not off the top of my head, but I think it qualifies as a synecdoche:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

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