If you don't know what Bitcoin is, do a bit of research on the internet, and you will get plenty... but the short story is that Bitcoin was created as a medium of exchange, without a central bank or bank of issue being involved.
Furthermore, Bitcoin transactions are supposed to be private, that is anonymous. Most interestingly, Bitcoins have no real world existence; they exist only in computer software, as a kind of virtual reality.
The general idea is that Bitcoins are 'mined'... interesting term here... by solving an increasingly difficult mathematical formula -more difficult as more Bitcoins are 'mined' into existence; again interesting- on a computer. Once created, the new Bitcoin is put into an electronic 'wallet'. It is then possible to trade real goods or Fiat currency for Bitcoins... and vice versa. Furthermore, as there is no central issuer of Bitcoins, it is all highly distributed, thus resistant to being 'managed' by authority.
Naturally proponents of Bitcoin, those who benefit from the growth of Bitcoin, insist rather loudly that 'for sure, Bitcoin is money'... and not only that, but 'it is the best money ever, the money of the future', etc... Well, the proponents of Fiat shout just as loudly that paper currency is money... and we all know that Fiat paper is not money by any means, as it lacks the most important attributes of real money. The question then is does Bitcoin even qualify as money... never mind it being the money of the future, or the best money ever.
To find out, let's look at the attributes that define money, and see if Bitcoin qualifies. The three essential attributes of money are;
1) money is a stable store of value; the most essential attribute, as without stability of value the function of numeraire, or unit of measure of value, fails.
2) money is the numeraire, the unit of account.
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