Everything is money. Why? Because you can trade anything that you own for anything else. Fiat is simply easy money for the people. The fiat Ponzi plays on the ignorance of the people, to make the bankers wealthy from tiny inflation "robbery" from the fiat Ponzi. Crypto hasn't gone down. Fiat has simply gone up in the eyes of the manipulators of it, and maybe the people in general. After all, fiat has been around for a long time. The people aren't going to just drop it as of tomorrow. In a land of private property like the USA is, crypto will never really be gone. The fiat Ponzi will destroy itself like all Ponzi's do. Then it will be other money: crypto, land, gold and silver, barter, etc. As long as we have modern communications, crypto will always be the most important money.