I can't pay my rent or my server bills in "prestige". Entirely different.
Also, in fact, people get things that otherwise cost money all the time based on prestige.
Crucially, money, bitcoin, and pokemon cards are all transferrable. You can't transfer prestige to someone else, so it has no value in financial transactions.
> you can sell the bitcoins
Prestige is influence, and you can absolutely sell the use or effects of influence.
> There are exchanges that declare their exact value.
Payment does not need to have exact value, just non-zero expected value, which prestige definitely has. There is no exact value to startup equity either, but it's still rightly considered to be compensation for investment of labor and money.
It's been a meme for decades.
OP said "it should be paid" because "it is a job", and so the rejection of that claim is two-fold: 1) Uncertainty in the expected value of payment does not change the fact that it's payment, 2) Payment in units other than dollars is still payment. If I get paid in bitcoins, the bitcoin market could completely collapse before I cash out. It's not different than that.
OP's specific written framing, that because it's a job it needs to be paid, which is only additive commentary if OP believes that it isn't being paid, disagrees with your prediction about what OP really secretly bases their statement on.
We can look further back in OP's comment as well:
> The movement grew out of frustration that commercial software cannot be freely improved and fixed by the user
This is only fractionally true, and it is only true in an unpaid way for a desire to consume free software. It is not true in an unpaid way for the desires to produce or maintain free software. Those are done because the producers and maintainers experience some kind of reward from doing so.