How do you define if something is real? The golf club is real, and the obvious reasoning is that you can touch it, but is that sufficient? It could be made of the wrong material and be totally deficient as a golf club, a nice bottle of wine or a famous painting could always be a forgary. A video of a person online can be real, it is a real video, and just like a physical object it could be a forgery. At any rate, I am inclined to think a things realness can only be determined subjectively. What about you? Even if bitcoin is real though, that casts a wide spread of what is considered real, so I understand this isn't immediately a justification that bitcoin is a commodity.