With all the (well-justified) animosity here toward cryptocurrency, I understand your annoyance. But please do not make the mistake of conflating cryptocurrency with cryptography. The former is a planet-burning ponzi scheme. The latter is a highly technical academic field with a rich history applications to mathematical theory, military intelligence, and international commerce.
The discipline’s academics all hate cryptocurrency just as much as you do, and they’re a victim of this glib verbal conflation, not the perpetrators of it.
