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>>I've got all the baseball cards I owned as a 10 year old stored in a persistent database too, but that does nothing to give it value.

That's a strawman. I was merely making the point that its existence as information in a persistent database means it's not "imaginary".

As for what confers it with value: that's the market. It has market value, so it is not "monopoly money", regardless of your various theories as to why it shouldn't have value.

>>All the drivel about mixers and zero knowledge proofs is the sales pitch of snake oil salesmen (and people who bought snake oil to a point they feel invested in it's value)

I made factual points about its similarities to cash. Your critique is knee-jerk hostility based on ignorance of the technology and your preconceived notion that it's a scam.