"Bitcoin is money" has become the only acceptable framing for many bitcoiners. If you can't imagine any other, your mind is captured.

True, it does a lot as money, and it's the best money we've ever had. But Bitcoin is what it is, and as a technology, can be used for any purpose people can use it for; can fit any narrative that realistically applies to it.

It used to be that people would think about Bitcoin from the lens of their own lives, and you'd hear all kinds of neat interpretations about it.

Nowadays it's just "money" this and "finance" that. And I believe that that is actually the least useful framing for Bitcoin. The least meaningful. The least impactful. The least powerful. If money is all you think Bitcoin is, then you're just looking at the ground floor of its potential.

#softwar