For the past few years, a significant part of my job has been the translation of some of the largest crypto websites in the world. This hasn’t been a trivial task.

Cryptocurrency — a digital frontier shaped by its own set of rules — has not only challenged our understanding of finance and technology, but has also created an entirely new lexicon as nebulous as the blockchain networks it refers to. Innovation creates new machinery — and it also forges a fresh language, necessitated by the demands of novel concepts and ideas. 

And the lexicon of crypto, woven with its own abbreviations, acronyms and idiosyncratic phrases, poses a unique challenge to translators worldwide, a…

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