BTC> I don’t like the term “crypto” …Not only because it distorts the field of cryptography, but it is also very much related to scam schemes, perpetrated by individuals who have 70% pre-mined coins, create pseudo-decentralized systems, and register trademarks, among other tactics…
The term ‘crypto’ brings to mind Schneier, B. (2015) ‘Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. 20th Anniversary Edition.’ Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley. in Chapter 1…”
A message is plaintext (sometimes called cleartext). The process of disguising a message in such a way as to hide its substance is encryption. An encrypted message is ciphertext. The process of turning ciphertext back into plaintext is decryption. This is all shown in Figure 1.1.
(If you want to follow the ISO 7498-2 standard, use the terms “encipher” and “decipher.” It seems that some cultures find the terms “encrypt” and “decrypt” offensive, as they refer to dead bodies.)
The art and science of keeping messages secure is cryptography, and it is practiced by cryptographers. Cryptanalysts are practitioners of cryptanalysis, the art and science of breaking ciphertext; that is, seeing through the disguise. The branch of mathematics encompassing both cryptography and cryptanalysis is cryptology and its practitioners are cryptologists. Modern cryptologists are generally trained in theoretical mathematics—they have to be.
That’s why my mantra is “Bitcoin NOT Crypto”..
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Ahh only because you can't learn about it in the right way or you can't implement what you've learned in the right way you are performing an opinion about a system. It's true to some extent that scams are involved in crypto and especially nowadays people are very much effected by it but that will not reduce the popularity of crypto.
Due to its high profits people will join it continuously. Only what we have to do is to launch awareness programs to safeguard people from scams. Exchange should also play a role in that and they are trying to some extent also.