content: Bitcoin is currently experiencing a period of historically unprecedented stability. That said, trying to classify bitcoin as anything under the law is retarded. It is just information that conforms to a specific protocol laid out by the Satoshi whitepaper. Attempts to regulate it will inevitably fail, just like attempts to regulate the downloading and uploading of movies, games and other information has failed. The corrupt bureaucrats and politicians can try and redefine an arbitrary series of 1s and 0s as much as they want, but information is still just information.