The word "cryptocurrency" does not mean the same thing today as it did in 2009. You know this just as well as I do and are being intellectually dishonest.
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Yes it does mean the exact same thing. Bitcoiners just like to act snobbish and use the word as a pejorative. There are great cryptos and there are trash cryptos, but they are all crypto including Bitcoin. It's cringe when Bitcoiners pretend they transcends the category of a cryptocurrency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Why is this even a debate, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency.