Agreed! I first started using "cryptoquick" in 2005, and registered the domain, cryptoquick.com, in 2009, and I hadn't heard of Bitcoin then. I wasn't working with cryptography at the time, it just sounded cool. But now we have these affinity scammers calling Bitcoin a cryptocurrency, yet Satoshi never used that term in the whitepaper. I'm down with putting the entire term "cryptocurrency" to bed, and calling everything that claims to be a "Better Bitcoin" a fucking scam that is stealing people's money. Do people make their own currencies with good intentions? They can certainly say so, and people can think that, but there's no way to know that's true. What I do know is true, what is cryptographically proven, is that Satoshi never sold his coins, but all the other scammers making their own scamcoins did so. That's what's called a rugpull, a bait and switch, an inflation scam. Scammers don't need to take your coins to have your money if they can just premine and dump on unsuspecting retail investors. People say, "it was voluntary", but that's just blaming the victim, saying "they should've known, should've done their research." We should be blasting the scammers instead. So, I get the vitriol against it, I'm very sympathetic. But why should I change when they're the ones who suck?

Anyway. Next time someone asks if I'm "buying crypto", I'll say, nah, I only use Free Open Source cryptography.