Bitcoin meets the basic requirements of money better than anything else that came before it. It's like gold, which has been money for 5,000 years, with teleportation capabilities.

From https://breedlove22.medium.com/money-bitcoin-and-time-part-1...:

    Hardness — resistance to unpredictable supply increases and debasements of value
    · Fungibility — units are interchangeable and indistinguishable from one another
    · Portability — ease of transporting or transmitting monetary units across distances
    · Durability — resistance of monetary units to rot, corrosion or deterioration of value
    · Divisibility — ease of subdividing or grouping monetary units
    · Security — resistance to counterfeiting or forgery
    · Sovereignty — the source of its value, trust factors and permissions necessary to transact with it (natural social consensus or artificial government decree)