yeah, it's definitely a commodity. but same can be said about other speculative commodities such as gold or silver, and they've been used as currencies (ok, not

yeah, it's definitely a commodity. but same can be said about other speculative commodities such as gold or silver, and they've been used as currencies (ok, not quite, but close enough) for thousands of years :) not to mention that instability in actual currencies happens all the time, if you look outside of the post-ww2 first world.