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[lionheart78]

The topic above was that bitcoin is not crypto. But how is that?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5583041.0

And it seems to me that bitcoin is also a crypto, it's just the most important coin. And as far as I see in public, there are bitcoin, altcoins and shitcoins - I apologize if I misunderstood something. Bitcoin is always called a cryptocurrency in the news.

I believe the author of the linked thread is confused between alternative currency and cryptocurrency.  It is possible that he thinks alternative cryptocurrencies are the so called crypto and crypto is not Bitcoin which we all know is partially true.

It has been explained to him that Bitcoin is under the umbrellaa of cryptocurrency but to whatever reason,  I find it hard for him to absorb the factual explanation of many members that explained the reason why Bitcoin is crypto.

The impression about you, OP, is as if you haven't read the posts of those who respond to the topic that caused your misunderstanding. If you had taken the time to read the answers, you would have made a correct understanding for yourself that people consider Bitcoin to be a separate cryptocurrency, since it is difficult to put it on a par with all alternative coins that cannot achieve all the advantages of Bitcoin even by half. Nevertheless, Bitcoin remains a cryptocurrency, the first, the only, and unique; everything else is a faint resemblance, something that someone is trying to recreate with all the advantages of using but having certain disadvantages.

Read that OP topic; it's answered by the same users to whom you ask a question in this topic.

I think the one confusing in the linked post is the use of the term crypto.  We all know that crypto is short for cryptocurrency, so if we are referring to alternative cryptocurrency, it should be called altcoin or alternative crypto.  Saying crypto alone implies the person is talking about the whole cryptocurrency, Bitcoin included.

[retreat]

With so much explanation already provided, you should be able to understand that Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, and how it differs from Altcoins. However, even though Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, if you want to be more precise, especially in discussions about Bitcoin, you need to differentiate between them. If you refer to "cryptocurrency," people will be confused because it's too broad. So be more specific by saying "Bitcoin" or "Altcoin," because they are fundamentally different.

[Ndabagi01]

With so much explanation already provided, you should be able to understand that Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, and how it differs from Altcoins. However, even though Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, if you want to be more precise, especially in discussions about Bitcoin, you need to differentiate between them. If you refer to "cryptocurrency," people will be confused because it's too broad. So be more specific by saying "Bitcoin" or "Altcoin," because they are fundamentally different.

Bitcoin is a very powerful currency that you don’t want to share its name with other altcoins. It is very distinctive from them and when trying to generalize them, you’ll feel you haven’t done justice to what Bitcoin has become as of today. When you talk of altcoin, you’ve already separated bitcoin from the list and should be treated explicitly from the rest (altcoin). Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and it was already at the time of its invention thousands miles ahead of any other altcoins that which came to be today. So they can’t beat the reach and separating the names like this is better understood and well explanative to even a lay man.