Er... no? Except maybe if you are part of a specific cryptocurrency "bubble", but I'd say that for the typical HN reader, "crypto" still means cryptography in general, not its specific blockchain-related applications.

If that were true for the "typical HN reader", then most articles submitted with "crypto" in the title would be referring to cryptography, not cryptocurrency.

Take a look for yourself, sorted by date: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Well yeah, as we all know the title of a submitted article has to be left unchanged, and due to the cryptocurrency hype most articles referring to "crypto" will be actually cryptocurrency articles. But I still trust the "typical HN user" to be able to tell the two apart using just the title. And if anyone should stop using the word "crypto", it's the cryptocurrency guys, not the cryptography guys mumble mumble

Those non-cryptozoologist have been hogging good word prefixes too long. How dare others use our words….

To be clear, HN should have a strict policy that all titles about cryptocurrency replace the word "Crypto" with "Ponzi".

It's time for an inequality index for Ponzicurrencies distribution

Bitcoin’s Dominance of Ponzi Payments Is Starting to Erode

YouTube Ponzi giveaway scams

Ask HN: A good and thoughtful place to discuss Ponzicurrencies?

“You Don't Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Ponzi to Retail

Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and a Ponzi token’s wild ride

Ponzi Enthusiasts Meet Their Match: Angry Gamers

The metaverse is money and Ponzi is king

Ponzi-Gram Mailing List

From Electronic Warfare Inside the US Navy to Ponzi Startup

NFTs, an overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and Ponzi mania

North Korean Hackers Impersonate Major Ponzi Investment Firm to Scam Startups

Perhaps, but we could probably do the same with other title terms that show up frequently.

* VC=predator

* startup=side project with delusions of grandeur

* San Francisco=small city that isn't the center of the universe

* ad industry=the reason most software exists

etc

I see more cryptocurrency than cryptography on the HN front page, by a large margin, so er, yes, it's a valid comment.

Er.. no! This post confused me so much because I thought it was about cryptocurrency

Sure, just like “hacker” these days is mostly a synonym for “criminal”, so the site needs to be renamed.

Let’s try to maintain some hype inertia.

Isn’t cryptocurrency just a subset of cryptography anyway?

Cryptocurrency is an application for cryptography.