[Ads-l] bitcoin as generic term for cryptocurrencies

[Barretts Mail]

Unfortunately, I didn’t save the tweet, but someone once noted that “bitcoin” is sometimes used as a generic term for cryptocurrency.

In "IMF director Christine Lagarde: Bitcoin is too expensive for me at the…” (https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/06/imf-director-christine-lagarde-bitcoin-is-too-expensive-for-me-at-the-moment.html), Christine Lagarde says in response to a question from Sara Eisen:

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You know, what the Chinese authorities have decided is to just ban the initial offering of bitcoins
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China recently prohibited initial coin offerings (ICO).

N.B. She is not a native speaker of English. 

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA
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