cryptosphere

noun — 2 senses

cryptosphere

noun

Etymology From crypto- + -sphere.

1

Biology, Ecology, Natural sciences The habitat of the cryptozoa.

  • The teeming multitudes are to be found hidden in the soil, or beneath the debris that covers much of the earth's surface. The latter environment, the cryptosphere, provides a series of microhabitats that link their inhabitants with the environment in which they evolved many millions of years ago.2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:
2

Business, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Finance Collective, Informal The cryptocurrency community.

  • The core-team Apes describe the graffiti-covered bathroom of the club itself — which looks like a sticky Tiki bar — in a way that echoes that project’s broader mission: “Think of it as a collaborative art experiment for the cryptosphere.”2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone:
  • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN:

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