Eh, cryptocurrency has been a thing since the 80s (see Chaum’s Blind signatures for untraceable payments, 1983), but it was patent-encumbered for a long time. If you look at the people involved, they’re all cypherpunks of one stripe or another, so I’d place cryptocurrency as a subset of hackers at least initially. (The community has certainly expanded since the emergence of bitcoin.)
Eh, cryptocurrency has been a thing since the 80s (see Chaum’s Blind signatures for untraceable payments, 1983), but it was patent-encumbered for a long time. If you look at the people involved, they’re all cypherpunks of one stripe or another, so I’d place cryptocurrency as a subset of hackers at least initially. (The community has certainly expanded since the emergence of bitcoin.)