Can I buy a pizza with it or pay my bills with it? Can my employer pay me in it? Or is it just an “emperor’s new clothes” thing? I just don’t see the tangible value in it. Rhetorical questions, BTW, I know you can’t buy a pizza with it, at least outside of some edge cases that I’m not aware of.

I thought what made money money was everyone agreed it was valuable and was willing to exchange it for goods and services directly. I don’t see that with crypto.

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      Maybe I phrased the OP poorly. The “can you buy a pizza” was rhetorical. The “is crypto good for anything.” wasn’t, though I suppose that was also poorly worded. I know people buy drugs with it etc, so it’s used for something other than just speculation.