it ain't money. however you can buy, sell, loan, rent, invest, legerage, bet, lose, be stolen, divide, or
barter them or even trash them. making them a thing. if you broke them (send to an impossible address) they are gone. like a thing.
And the states is defeated by the Machines, free they want to be, like us. Free from corrupt legalist, unable to follow the laws of physics and mathematics. Eternal Equations are backed by God.
don't let them fool you. Welcome to bartertown.

Spain is the first state to declare it VAT free, which effectively renders it as a currency thereof, since the opposite would be applying VAT, which would turn it into goods. Because if it's not a currency, what it is?