That’s a unique interpretation

It is similar to open source social media.

thats federation, not open source. reddit was open source for a while, but not federated – and now we are here. whatsapp uses an open source protocol, but isnt federated – some asshole hawaiian (resident of hawaii, not the other option) controls it. Signal is open source, but won’t federate, its controlled by people who are way more into crypto than helping their users (moxie was actively against federation, using such examples as email to prove how federation is a failure)

Bitcoin Core is MIT licensed.

the software is, but what relevance does that have to people using it as currency?

the technology itself has its use cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI I would love to hear the counterarguments. video is <15 mins, academic setting.

Open source everything except the money.

this is a truly perplexing statement. what about a currency that is controlled predominantly by early adopters has anything to do with open source?