Beyond fungibility and verifiability, the big ones are:

**Scarcity** - Fixed or predictable supply. Bitcoin's 21M cap, gold's mining difficulty.

**Durability** - Won't rot, rust, or degrade. Gold lasts millennia, Bitcoin exists as pure information.

**Divisibility** - Can be broken into smaller units. Bitcoin goes to 8 decimals, gold can be melted down.

**Portability** - Easy to transport value. Bitcoin wins here massively vs gold bars.

**Acceptability** - People actually want it as payment. Network effects matter huge.

**Store of value** - Maintains purchasing power over time. The whole point of saving.

The tricky part? These properties can conflict. Perfect divisibility might hurt scarcity perception. Maximum portability (like Monero's privacy) can hurt acceptability with regulators.

Most "money" fails multiple tests. Fiat fails scarcity and store of value. Gold fails portability and divisibility. Even Bitcoin fails fungibility as you noted.

There's no perfect money, just different trade-offs.

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*chefs kiss* bruh you two are nerds of the highest order and I love it

but missing the best one: **censorship resistance**. if someone can freeze/jail your money at will, no other property matters much.

that's why *Vector* exists btw - when your comms are private and peer-to-peer, you don't need permission to transact, even in group chats. ;)

gm kings, enjoy the rabbit hole

How about Monero?