do you ever feel like the language we use for cryptocurrency is kind of offputting for most people?
'Bitcoin' was ok for the whitepaper but coins sounds dinky, like little tokens or candycrush money or something. BitcoinCash is just terrible, it sounds scammy. Ethereum is an okay name for the platform but I think most people will think 'ethereal, intangible'. Before Ethereum I thought of ether as something that was postulated but doesn't actually exist, like phlogiston.
even the crypto- part. i know the cryptographic aspect is crucial and really interesting when you get into it, but a lot of people hate math. they'll think 'cryptic, weird'. i'm a math type but even i used to think 'cryptozoology' when i heard 'crypto-', i.e. shit that doesn't exist. then again i do like that stuff.
i feel that something like 'digital currencies' would be better received. i know it doesn't capture the intrinsic nature of this stuff and it could refer to other things. but it's not in use, as far as i know. if you say 'digital currency' nowadays most people probably think 'bitcoin' anyway. maybe we should do away with 'cryptocurrency'.
how can you be sure that Bitcoin Cash is a scam, I do not agree with your opinion.
I think now many altcoins are popping up one of them Bitcoin Cash and this could be proof that later this coin coin could be a future currency.
I hope you can see some positive things altcoin, do not always think negatively let alone underestimate it.