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 Thing is, it’s people who should know better who do this lately. 

And it’s an insult to cryptography to call shitcoins crypto, but it is what it is. 

While things may be technically correct, the interchangeable use of Bircoin and crypto muddies the waters. 

I’m still team anything but Bitcoin is a shitcoin. I hope everyone has the right to shitcoin. Or Bitcoin. But it’s the difference between gold and pyrite. 

We can’t be lumped into “crypto.” We’re better than that.