What we should really be building is productive assets and stable money, with special thanks to David Andolfatto, Vitalik Buterin, Chih-Cheng Liang, Barnab éMonnot and Danny Ryan for commenting on this article. I think the narrative of the “Store of value”and the misinterpretation of what is really “Fiat money”is a huge problem undermining the whole cryptocurrency world. Only when we have an honest understanding of it do we really have the ability to build something better.