Which is why Bitcoin should be considered a decentralized, deflationary crypto asset like digital gold, that also happens to be exchangeable for goods and services like a currency. Notice I said "like a currency" because it is clear that that attribute is not its primary function nor its strength.

The word "crytocurrency" is a complete misnomer. It should have been called a "cryptoasset" from the beginning.

Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency!  Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server.  Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies!  Bitcoin's total circulation is limited to 21 million coins.  The coins are gradually released to the network's nodes based on the CPU power they contribute, so you can get a share of them by contributing your idle CPU time.

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