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 Bitcoin isn’t money. It’s speech. One of Bitcoin’s features is that it behaves like money. 
 This is my take as well. The most important part is the censorship resistant network. The money is just the side benefit that values the network's throughput. 
 “Most important part” is subjective here. 

With a handle like mine, the most important part is its provable scarcity. 

For the person in Argentina and Venezuela, its freedom from insane inflation rates.

For the ex-NSA agent in Russia, it’s censorship resistant to being financially destroyed and cut off from transacting with others. 

For the father of three whose wife is cheating on him, the father no longer has to give up half of his assets anymore when they divorce.

For the energy companies, Bitcoin means that there’s no such thing as “stranded” energy. 

It’s all subjective, but what isn’t subjective is that it is speech.