Carlos on Nostr: I dunno why you are so triggered when people say bitcoin is crypto. Unless, maybe, ...

I dunno why you are so triggered when people say bitcoin is crypto. Unless, maybe, you are intentionally looking to trigger others.

I'll put it to you this way. When the first universal pre-paid postal stamp came out - the Penny Black - did anyone declare all other stamps to be inferior and distinct and not to use the word "stamp"? FYI, there are much more scarce and sought after stamps than the Penny Black.

For what bitcoin does, we can say it was the first to get the ball over the net. It had managed to piece together multiple concepts and cipher code that it could stand up and not fall over. When one person achieves something great, others learn to replicate and improve. Some people go on to run and become the fastest and others more agile. This is normal.

Now, just so you know, this wondrous thing you know as Bitcoin, that no one should ever declare to be called "crypto". To date it had at least two infinite supply bugs, the most recent being 2017/2018. In more recent times there were bugs to steal money from Lightning nodes. Just let that sink in a little.

OTOH you might be right. Perhaps we should distinguish between the first and all others that we can talk about bitcoin in the historic sense and crypto in the progressive sense.