I'm neither, so it serves no use for me, other than for speculative purposes; and that's my entire point. If the OP wants a metric to use to gauge how "proper"

I'm neither, so it serves no use for me, other than for speculative purposes; and that's my entire point. If the OP wants a metric to use to gauge how "proper" a currency is, that metric should be primarily weighted by 1) how many people need to use it day-to-day, 2) the volume of goods and services transacted it in every day.