I would argue that ₿itcoin is money 1.0.

We have had things monetize but we’ve never had pure metaphysical money.

ANY THING or physical commodity can monetize. For example, ramen and cigarettes monetize in prison. So they acquire temporary monetization as tokens in that environment. But outside of it they quickly devalue back down to commodities.

Regarding the credit/debt ledger system so popular in chartalism; this too has monetized, but again, outside of certain jurisdictions, namely the 180 fiat token based ones, it quickly devalues to a commodity. And in this case, zero.

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Good point but technically Bitcoin isn’t even Bitcoin 1.0 😂

Agreed 💯.

What an asymmetrical opportunity we have with this knowledge, right?

Money seems most accurately described as a social ledger of productivity with deferred consumption. I'd say the credit ledger is the closest thing to a pure monetary technology. Bitcoin is a digital version of that, with properties that make it far superior to any centralized ledger. It's a complex but critical topic.