Personally, I don't have any major problem with the use of the term cryptocurrency as long as it is being made clear regularly regarding what it is being referred to, and sometimes people attempt to make comparisons between bitcoin and shitcoins and even try to proclaim that some shitcoins are better than bitcoin.. so then their use of the term crypto is to attempt to put bitcoin and shitcoins on similar levels, as if they were similar things.. which is also misleading... so then it becomes even more necessary to make sure that such use of such term is not misleading people into thinking that bitcoin and shitcoins are similar.. even though technically and even definitionally it may well be true that they all fit within a similar category that could be referred to as cryptocurrencies....
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It is very necessary that a clear difference between bitcoin and shitcoins is well emphasized when discussing about cryptocurrency as a digital asset. Because it becomes confusing for some newbies misplacing, misinterpreting and equating bitcoin at same level with altcoins. The ignorance in the differentiation for some people emanates from the hypes the shitcoins developers and the lack of personal research to be able to categorize what bitcoin is to cryptocurrency.