Money is simply the most marketable (liquid) commodity. In many languages the word "silver" is a synonym for money. It's the thing that eliminates the need for a double coincidence of wants. Using altcoins is basically the same as going back to barter. That's taking money backwards, not forwards.
You don't go back to barter because barter was never the beginning of anything. This has to be the most misguided conception of Austrian Economics. Centuries of Anthropology have not yielded a single testament to the use of barter before money. Which makes sense, because it is absolutely useless.Money was debt since invention. Favours owed to others. The fact that it takes the form of a commodity is that it was the only way to keep track of it, the first (decentralized) ledger.




