RE: Why I think Bitcoin is an Asset and not a currency

I want to dive further, but I’m slammed with work. :(

First Amendment - Code protected - Digital signatures are equivelent to handwritten signatures - Money is free speech

First Amendment protects verbal and non-verbal forms of communication.

First Amendment Protects Computer Code

Bernstein v. United States, Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes, and Junger v. Daley—federal courts held that computer code merited protection under the First Amendment.

“This court can find no meaningful difference between computer language, particularly high-level languages as defined above, and German or French....Like music and mathematical equations, computer language is just that, language, and it communicates information either to a computer or to those who can read it…”

-Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Judge Patel, April 15, 1996

Digital signatures are equivalent to traditional handwritten signatures in many respects, but properly implemented digital signatures are more difficult to forge than the handwritten type

These messages can be transmitted over phone, person, mp3, email, morris code, artwork, etc.

Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

Also, note SCOTUS ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that spending money is speech and regulating Bitcoin restricts political free speech.