Is Crypto Currency a Currency?

crypto currencies are suspended between two contradictory goals, a radical political attempt to de politicize the appearance of money. And a seductive use of crypto currencies as speculative assets beyond the regulatory grasp of mone rian fiscal authorities. Is that? Is that hypocritical? Or is it more symptomatic o feature instead of a bug? The first thing to notice is that things have changed a lot. So five years ago, ten years ago, when crypto currency such as bit coin first appeared, it wasn't entirely obvious that it would become a specula asset.