That's quite a strawman. That crypto isn't used for buying groceries doesn't mean crypto isn't being used as money. Crypto technology isn't even good enough yet

That's quite a strawman. That crypto isn't used for buying groceries doesn't mean crypto isn't being used as money. Crypto technology isn't even good enough yet to allow for these kind of usage (small payments). The bitcoin whitepaper itself mentions that fiat is good enough for most cases. You might not have any use case for crypto. Maybe most people in your country don't have. But that doesn't mean it has no use cases, or it's not being used. If you wanted to send 500 dollars to me (I live in Argentina), the easiest (and probably cheapest) way would be via crypto (USDC, USDT, etc).