“After calling Buckley a crypto nazi. Whatever that is...”
It would mean “secret nazi”, or “hidden nazi”. Vidal was saying Buckley was really a nazi on the inside, and just pretending not to be.
Derives from the “crypto jews” of medieval Spain, who pretended to convert to Catholicism to appease the Inquisition, but continued to practice their original religion in private.
You mean he wasn’t talking about bitcoin?