As soon as I saw the words "crypto" and "NFT" I new I was going to have to face a wall of MMT ignorance and shitcoin mindset, if I want to reply. So in the post, I'll be talking about bitcoin. I have no time for retarded shitcoinery.
Bitcoin in money, period. The hardest money there ever was created.
Money needs to have a few qualities. Namely, a good store of value, and a good means of exchange amonst other attributes we don't need to concern ourselves in relation to this thread.
Now imagine you lived on a island kingdow where gold is money. But the island king recalls all the gold, claiming he needs to remint it all with his updated portrait.
But the king is a crook. In order to finance his wastefu and corrupt bureaucracy and his destructive nation building wars, he dilutes the new gold. With half of the new coins made of tungsten.
So you have an old coin of pure gold, and a new coin of diluted gold. They both say $10 on them. They will both buy the same amount of stuff, and they are both legal tender for $10.
Which one will you save, and which one will you spend away?
Of course you will put the real gold under your mattress and spend away the scrap gold coin.
Well retarded Modern Monetary Theorists and fiaters will have you thinking that only means of exchange matters. That the worthless scrap gold is somehow more valuable real money because everyone is busy spending it and dumping it onto the next guy. MMT and fiat mind virus will surely convince you that if you are saving your real gold coin, you actually are not really using it. Because to fiaters, saving money is not only discouraged, it's also vilified. They don't allow you to sage your money for a rainy day. They don't say you are saving your money, they say you are "hording" it. Yeah, like an evil greedy little miserable grouch who refuses to share with the rest of us. You are not only stupid, because your fiat money will only keep losing value over time, but you are also a greedy evil capitalist for refusing to let other enjoy your money, by saving it for little Timmy's college fund, or your retirement, or for grandma's operation. How dare you? Have you no shame ?!?!
Never mind that if we had an honest banking system, it would be impossible for anyone to borrow a dollar unless someone else was saving a dollar. So literally, saving your money would be the only way for others to borrow money to build a factory and create new jobs.
MMT will gave you believe that you absolutely need to he dumping your currency into the next guy's lap as soon as you can. And that circulating your money actually is what promotes the economy, and helps others. In fact, once you are done spending your last dollar, you are highly encouraged to borrow more, drive yourself into debt, just so you can spend more, and promote the economy even more.
If circulating money really promoted anything and added value to anyone, you should sit in a circle jerk with your buddies, and pass around a $20 bill until you all become filthy rich. Somewhere around round 5 or 6, one of you will realize it's rather boring unless you make it into a drinking game. First one to become rich takes a shot!!!
The reality is that most bitcoiners don't really want to spend our bitcoin because we value our bitcoin more than we value our fiat. Just like a gold bug wouldn't be interested in selling their gold to buy something.
So if you ask the difference between store of value and means of exchange, they ate tie sides of the same coin. And this is likely to keep happening until we run out of people to accept our fiat. I'm not holding my breath.