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@michelle, don't forget is a Bitcoin discussion thread, using the word crypto may implies including altcoins which is not included in the topic of discussion.

I think you are getting something wrong here. Bitcoin is the crypto itself. Every other coins you see today were built around bitcoin. Many people only know bitcoin when they hear the word crypto. There are people out there today who doesn't know that other coins exist, so when they hear about crypto the first thing that comes to their mind is bitcoin. Bitcoin is the crypto currency, if you are not aware of this know it today. If he had mentioned alt coins then you can say he is referring to other coins. So @Michelle is not talking out of point when he used the word crypto. If you see a newbie that has no knowledge about bitcoin investment, ask him or her what is crypto, I bet you the person will mention bitcoin.

In the earlier part of this thread, if I'm not mistaken, I think @JayJuanGee stressed the need to avoid using the word "cryptocurrency" when generalizing Bitcoin and the other coins out there. The reason being that while many funny things have been done leveraging on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin have remained clean since inception and people tend to taint the image of Bitcoin whenever they unleash their clandestine plots. Therefore, such clarifications is important and we must make effort to make people understand that Bitcoin is different from whatever people promote under the guise of cryptocurrency with the intent to steal.

In addition, I don't think there is officially any word like "crypto" rather it was coined as an abbreviation for cryptocurrency. So instead of regarding Bitcoin as crypto, why not we just address it as Bitcoin which is by all standard more popular and acceptable to all!

Crypto is a general term and I think we need to understand this, bitcoin has a name and we should try to call it that way, saying crypto can confuse others to think that the rules and conditions that apply to bitcoin apply to other coins, and as we know other coins include shit coin which are mostly worthless and they all depend on bitcoin to have value. Using the word crypto is going off topic in this thread.

Well everybody is here to learn from eachother. All this point given I'm pretty sure that @michellee as already gotten the gist, because you guys are right that crypto is a general term. So mentioning crypto Is you talking about bitcoin and other coin which others as already clarified that this thread is all about holding or bitcoin investment and all that. So next time just try and specify by mentioning bitcoin than using crypto or cryptocurrency so that those that are new in this space would easily get the gist.

Quote from: Justbillywitt on Today at 02:42:25 PM

I think you are getting something wrong here. Bitcoin is the crypto itself. Every other coins you see today were built around bitcoin. Many people only know bitcoin when they hear the word crypto. There are people out there today who doesn't know that other coins exist, so when they hear about crypto the first thing that comes to their mind is bitcoin. Bitcoin is the crypto currency, if you are not aware of this know it today. If he had mentioned alt coins then you can say he is referring to other coins. So @Michelle is not talking out of point when he used the word crypto. If you see a newbie that has no knowledge about bitcoin investment, ask him or her what is crypto, I bet you the person will mention bitcoin.

I get what you trying to say. But still can't change the fact that bitcoin is crypto itself, yeah we all know that bitcoin is the mother of all cryptocurrency. And and other coins were built around bitcoin and all that, but bitcoin still under the categories of cryptocurrencies, So those people that have always have the thought that bitcoin is crypto itself. Is due to the half-size knowledge they have about and this space. So as have said before we all here to learn from eachother so if have said anything off! Please anyone can do so in correcting me. Because this is the aim of the forum forus to support eachother. Because anytime say something off there would always be users here to put you right on track.