not mine – i'm your average american. but can i make micropayments over visa to whoever happens to be offering a useful service on the internet? can i buy a beer for a friend in another country? is the dollar not getting weaker every month? are you suggesting that i save in euros or yuan? chunks of precious metal? bitcoin is money, and it's damn good money. from a historical standpoint, probably the best

It's fine if you use it for an alternative purpose outside of traditional finance. We'll just have to agree to disagree — I'm using standard economic definitions of money. If we define it as money, BTC doesn't win more; it's worse because people expect it to behave the same way as dollars, euros, yen or pesos in their region.