And there will always be, because electronic cash has a tangible value on its own. But not for all people, again. Some people don't care about that, and are quite fine with electronic fiat, alone. For them, electronic cash represents nothing more than an investment – an asset appreciated in practice solely by the faction that truly esteems the concept of electronic cash.

Even though I don't care much about Satoshi's intentions, I'm just going to quote two parts where he's pretty much arguing it's more than currency;


This further hammers home the point that I was trying to make. He also referenced bitcoin as being a commodity, but commodities only have value because they are useful in some way or another. They don't have value simply because people expect the price to keep going up.