It is absolutely fine with me somebody calls Bitcoin- token, however, by doing so they actually demonstrate the lack of their knowledge in the sphere, which discredits what they are talking about, no matter how logical it might seem. On the other hand, it's not an awful mistake of course, but sometimes it can be unpleasant
Yeah, I also think this person would be demonstrating lack of knowledge about it. In this thread only I have seen a lot of more appropriate names for it: currency, cryptocurrency, digital currency, asset, digital asset or the simplest one, coin.