Mainstream media says “Bitcoin is not a currency”

A few days ago, a national news outlet CNBC released an article claiming that Bitcoin is not a currency, sourcing this opinion from a digital currency entrepreneur, Balaji Srinivasan the CEO of Earn.com, a crypto project that we’ve discussed here on Crypto-News.net a couple of months ago.
Bitcoin has grown up to the point where it is no longer viable to use it to make payments. The network is too slow, the transaction fees are too large, and it works less and less as a currency, but rather