Excellent! I agree, the speculative nature of Bitcoin is, I think, a hiccup, but I don't believe it is the only one. If a new money is to replace an old, there must be some wealth transfer. The danger of speculative wealth building is that one is hoping to get wealthy off of other's expense, and I agree that is avarice, but that isn't a necessary motivational component for being a Bitcoiner.

I know Imam's a fan of precious metals money (coinage and paper notes with embedded metals, like a 1g gold paper meaning there's 1g of gold embedded into it), but it's unusable in a tele-comm age or would require far too much custodianship.

Money, at its essence, is information about who has done what for whom, and we either make the physical world the ledger, and atoms of gold are the tokens, or we will embed the ledger in writing and digital sygnals.