• lengauEnglish
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    It still does. People who like cryptocurrency are crypto bros (regardless of gender).

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      They mean literal cryptography.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

      Now, a lot of old crypto bros were the origins of crypto currency, but that’s a different breed of nerd than the modern crypto bro. The difference is how much you like math and how many posters of Alan Turing you have.

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        I don’t really know how you misunderstood his post in order to correct you, but I’ll try.

        He’s saying crypto nerds like cryptography and crypto bros are cryptocurrency shills.

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          Ah, I see. The confusion happened because crypto nerd absolutely does not mean that to the casual public anymore, as bemoaned in the parent comment, and I didn’t realize he was insisting there is still a distinction.

          I really don’t have a leg to stand on with that topic because I always put “libertarian” in scare quotes.

          The thing is, however, that a lot of the crypto nerds are also crypto bros. Or at least, they’re who the crypto bros were trying to be, the guys who were mining Bitcoin when it was worth $0.13, but those two people sound exactly alike on the Internet on their shared interest because they’re both trying to sell you the coins.

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        cryptocurrency is applied cryptography, no reason you can’t like both.