Satoshi made possible what Hayek thought impossible:

"It is probably impossible for pieces of paper or other tokens of a material itself of no significant market value to come to be gradually accepted and held as money unless they represent a claim on some valuable object."

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You could argue that Bitcoin is an immaterial token.

well you can argue that btc due to its history, design and scarcity is perceived as a „valuable object“

❝I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop.❞ —Friedrich Hayek