How do cryptozoologists feel about cryptocurrency?
by Andrew Marino from The Verge - All Posts on (#654Z1)
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge, Image CryptidCoin Ever since the word crypto" became shorthand for cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Web3 stuff sold in Super Bowl ads or discussed in dinner table conversations, it has overshadowed another community living outside of the blockchain world.
Cryptozoologists have been using the word crypto" to talk about their field of expertise: legendary creatures like Sasquatch, the Loch Ness monster, Mothman, Chupacabra, and others. Cryptozoology, the study of hidden or unknown animals, originated in the early 1960s by author Ivan T. Sanderson in his book Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to Life.
Though other crypto-prefix fields of study like cryptography have also been around for decades, to some cryptozoologists, crypto is not only just disrupting the...