As opposed to what - fake numbers on a piece of paper or fake numbers on your bank account? Come on, we've been through this bs. The medium for money doesn't have to have intrinsic value as a commodity.

For money to be sound, it has to be hard, scarce, durable, portable, divisible, and resistant to manipulation, with a high stock-to-flow ratio that enables it to function as a reliable store of value across generations. Bitcoin fulfills all of those better than any other currency in history, including the gold standard. Government fiat is not even worth mentioning, it's literally the worst debt-slave inflationary system ever devised, yet all the Bitcoin haters would rather have that than crypto.