cryptosphere

English

Etymology

crypto- +‎ sphere

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

cryptosphere (uncountable)

1. (ecology) The habitat of the cryptozoa.
   • 2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:

     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.

2. (informal, cryptocurrencies, collective) The cryptocurrency community.

   Synonym: cryptoverse

   Coordinate terms: blogosphere, Twittersphere

   • 2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone‎^[1]:

     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.”

   • 2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin‎^[2], Icon Books, →ISBN:

     The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.