Your listed advantages mostly boil down to two points: speculation (describing it as "asset class" when there is no real value behind it), and facilitating crim

Your listed advantages mostly boil down to two points: speculation (describing it as "asset class" when there is no real value behind it), and facilitating crime (not paying taxes, hiding keys in your laundry to move money across borders without the government knowing it, bypassing sanctions). The only legitimate point is that bitcoin is not affected by money printing as much as fiat currencies are. But that's a property of a wide range of asset classes.