{"id":3731,"date":"2021-11-18T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/crypto-means-cryptography-the-losing-battle-over-a-prefix\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:37:18","slug":"crypto-means-cryptography-the-losing-battle-over-a-prefix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/crypto-means-cryptography-the-losing-battle-over-a-prefix\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crypto means cryptography\u2019: the losing battle over a prefix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes blow against cryptographers clinging to prefix<\/p>\n<p>The stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2021-11-16\/crypto-staples\">getting a new name<\/a>: the Crypto.com Arena. The name reflects the arena\u2019s new sponsorship agreement with a Singapore-based cryptocurrency trading platform. That may be good news for cryptocurrency fanatics \u2013 but perhaps not so much for another faction within the digital landscape: cryptographers.<\/p>\n<p>Look up the word \u201ccrypto\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crypto\">Webster\u2019s dictionary<\/a>, and you\u2019ll see it refers to cryptography, which in turn is defined as \u201cthe computerized encoding and decoding of information\u201d. Search \u201ccrypto\u201d on Google, however, and you\u2019ll see a host of top results pointing to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/18\/crypto-cryptocurrency-cryptographers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c3f733db2055a6d07ddad41ffa45029a88deedef\/0_910_2807_1684\/master\/2807.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e636a431623e0f94e84f99eb22802c83\" title=\"\u2018Crypto means cryptography\u2019: the losing battle over a prefix\" \/>Renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes blow against cryptographers clinging to prefix<br \/>\nThe stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is getting a new name: the Crypto.com Arena. The name reflects the arena\u2019s new sponsorship agreement with a Singapore-based cryptocurrency trading platform. That may be good news for cryptocurrency fanatics \u2013 but perhaps not so much for another faction within the digital landscape: cryptographers.<br \/>\nLook up the word \u201ccrypto\u201d in Webster\u2019s dictionary, and you\u2019ll see it refers to cryptography, which in turn is defined as \u201cthe computerized encoding and decoding of information\u201d. Search \u201ccrypto\u201d on Google, however, and you\u2019ll see a host of top results pointing to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes blow against cryptographers clinging to prefix The stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is getting a new name: the Crypto.com Arena. The name reflects the arena\u2019s new sponsorship agreement with a Singapore-based cryptocurrency trading platform. That may be good news for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/crypto-means-cryptography-the-losing-battle-over-a-prefix\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Crypto means cryptography\u2019: the losing battle over a prefix<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}