Bitcoin is pure data, except it doesn't make beautiful music it makes chain pain from all the time they tank that chain to get your activities. Bitcoin is not money without meaningful privacy...and Bitcoin has none.
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Money doesn't need to compose songs or code. All I need it to do is store my purchasing power, the best way possible. And bitcoin does this (and only this) best. Everything else is mathematically doomed to leak to nonexistence.
The value of a gold coin isn't at all in the coin, but what the coin buys you. Same goes for bitcoin, except it does that exceptionally better.