Can we stop using the term "fiat" to refer to government-issued money? The important feature of fiat currencies is that they're backed by nothing. The fact that

Can we stop using the term "fiat" to refer to government-issued money? The important feature of fiat currencies is that they're backed by nothing. The fact that fiat currencies are normally government-issued is incidental. The term exists to contrast them with representative currencies. The same goes for most cryptocurrency: it's not backed by anything and only has value because most people agree it has value. Bitcoin is a kind of fiat currency, or at least it's closer to fiat money than it is to anything else.