I think, bitcoin is more of a crypto-asset than a crypto-currency. It lacks many properties a currency is supposed to have...
It's a mixture, it will be both after sidechains are introduced.
Who's franky1?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65837You will meet him very soon, he always gets triggered when there is a hardfork/bitcoin scaling debate. And he will tell us why a 2mb hardfork is so great, that in 10 years the blockchain will be many terrabytes big so that no node will be able to run it, except centralized data centers.