Are you OK with Bitcoin being called a token?
Do you need to be sent to crypto re-education camp?
It's a valid question, and defining your terms is important. But it
doesn't hurt BTC in any way, no matter what you call it. Call it a
shoe, it's still $4k.
The risk you run into by using terms interchangeably is things
that aren't as good being called the same thing, giving it a false
veneer of utility or respectability. Like OneCoin, nothing but a Ponzi
scheme, but so many people were/are just interested into getting
into the new hottness without doing any research of their own,
making the lazy decision and ending up getting screwed. We've seen
these things come and go in this ecosystem, and you always get
the newcomers saying things like "I got mine, so I don't care if it's
a Ponzi", justifyingother people getting ripped off in favor of themselves.
But as we know about Ponzis, they are only sustainable for so long,
then everyone's fucked.
I kinda flew off on a tangent there. I guess my point is call BTC
whatever you want. It's not actually a token, nor is it actually a coin.
It's a method of bookkeeping. Know your basics before buying based
on a name or label.