If your definition of money doesn't fit Bitcoin, so be it. But the point stands that you can't just write some number next to an address (creating coins out of thin air). Since people pay lots of money to generate these coins and have them accepted by everyone running nodes, as well as the buyers of these coins, they do have a value.
But this is my last post in this topic. It's a waste of time, as I said.
Please stop wasting your own time as well; if you're not interested in Bitcoin, maybe get a hobby; if you still are, seriously educate yourself first and then we can discuss about what you didn't understand.
Coming into a forum of people that are highly educated and experienced in this field and telling them that all is a 'great lie' without having any idea about any of even the basics of this, is not a good idea. In general.
So long! *unwatch*
No, I have no definition of money. I am stating the obvious - money is something. And then I gave the examples of something: liability (to redeem - token, fiat money, bond, gift card...), coin (tangible item like gold). I am also stating the obvious: we use numbers to express the quantity of something. Obviously, people must comunicate somehow to inform each other how many units of something is owned or transferred. For communication, alfanumeric symbols are used.
Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't exist. Something that doesn't exist cannot be money. It cannot be a digital product, or coin, token, commodity, whatever. Nothing cannot have features or provide freedom to people. And in the Satoshi's system there's nothing that the holders of the addresses or own. Numbers attached to their addresses just create the illusion that a specific quantity of something - digital coins called Bitcoins, exist. The system simply attaches, for e.g. 5 an address, and then it is claimed that the address holder owns 5 units of something - a thing called bitcoin. But the holder has nothing in their possession. Either digital or tangible. The number is simply fake. It's a lie. The whole system is a gian utopia where participants think they own something, while in reality only fake numbers are attached to their addresses.
What is stunning is how people in this discussion twist reality and definitions to be able to claim that nothing is something. I simply never experienced such a bizarre behavior in my life. Claiming that entering into this scheme is redeeming the non-existent item is an example of such behavior. Another example is frantically repeating the name Bitcoin as if people were actually holding a coin in their own hands. The most common behavior is hiding behind cryptographic management of numbers to create the illusion that something valuable is behind the numbers. Anyhow, it's an interesting psychological experiment to watch.