Interesting article.
I do believe that what bitcoins is, is dependent on the user now, how they decide to use it, what are their plans for their bitcoins for the future.
When we know that Bitcoin is a database, we continue to think about what Bitcoin is. Perhaps most of us would say that Bitcoin is a currency. Yes, this is our biggest consensus on Bitcoin. Perhaps many governments do not legally recognize Bitcoin as a currency, but Bitcoin is recognized and used by more and more people in the form of currency. Bitcoin's monetary properties have become increasingly clear.
in my opinion bitcoin can be called a currency and can also be called a very valuable asset because its price value continues to rise from year to year. There are several countries that do not accept bitcoin as a currency because bitcoin is only a decentralized digital currency, the government will have difficulty if someone commits a crime using bitcoin.
I do think that it's actually easy to track the criminal if they are using Bitcoins except for the time that they decide to use *virgin bitcoins* plus a wallet where the security level is marginal bur they do not ask for the documents.
So we can consider it an asset, currency, ledger, etc..
To some extent, I will agree, but I use it only as a currency on which you can earn money.
That's an asset.
I think the part of earning money comes from the fact that it's an asset with variable value.
Currency would be when you are using it to buy/sell things.