Bitcoin is virtual currency.
bitcoin is not virtual, it is pretty real. please stop using that word for bitcoin.
this topic has some good arguments against these types of words being used to describe bitcoin, I suggest giving it a read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1733918.0
no they are absolutely not the same. virtual has a completely different meaning and will impose a different way of thinking in the minds of those hear it.
and if you read the white paper you can see that Satoshi never used words like these. instead you can see words like "electronic cash" (and it literary is in the first line of the paper
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