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 not crypto itself, yeah we all know that bitcoin is the mother of all cryptocurrency. And other coins were built around bitcoin and all that, but bitcoin still under the category 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.
Not you haven't said anything bad at all. Nobody knows it all and as you rightly said we are all here to learn. I am open to criticism and learn from it. I won't dispute the fact that here has been a great source of learning for me since I came to this forum. From the reactions I have gotten from my post, I have learnt new things too and it has added to my knowledge.