Money has no properties or value. Both usd and bitcoin have an intrinsic value of zero. Unless you like staring at bills depicting national heroes, ofc.
The reason you want money is that you know people around you want it and you can use it to acquire goods.
Now, what makes USD a superior currency:
- you don't need internet to use it
- you don't need third party centralized unregulated services to use it (unless you want to run a full node)
- you can exchange it with ease, in multiple formats. Give your daughter 0.0000000000045 bitcoins for lunch.
- no fees for using it.
- practically scales to infinity vs few hundreds transactions per minute.
- doesn't require energy to run. The energy required by each transaction covers the needs (heating and transport included) of a family of 5 for days
- very stable, I know how much things will cost a minute, hour or days from now, so my daughter eats even if whales are short squeezing markets by lunch time.
- used mostly to buy services and goods vs never used to buy anything but other currencies.
- inflationary, creates pressure to spend and invest rather than hoarding. Deflative currencies don't make sense to spend. Why would I buy X today at n bitcoins, if the deflative nature of bitcoin will make it more scarce and will make X cheaper. Why spend bitcoin today, if in few months there will be new highs and I can buy even more and so on.
- de facto currency of international trade. Some countries like Russia try to do international trade in euro. What can have higher consensus?
- 250 years of history
- regulated through democratic means and under clear laws for the benefit of most; vs unregulated, mostly owned by few early anarco capitalists (i know people with thousands and thousands of bitcoin) and offshore scams. Basically very few people own most of bitcoins there are out there, very few people control most of the network.
I think the list can get infinitely longer but it gets boring.