Its also a digital asset, but as you can see with my Robux example, that isn't useful to describe it that way

A parrot is a bird, but I don't want to say cardinal, bluejay, woodpecker, vulture. I want to talk about a kind of bird

So you can wittle that down to songbirds corvids, or Psittaciformes

On the other hand you are a mammal which would group you in with dogs. But every time you cry and cry that you aren't like dogs I hit you with

"You are a mammal"

Bitcoin is a social construct. Things that are issued by corporate entities do not belong in the same discussion and "industry" as something that changes on the basis of social consensus.

The word “cryptocurrency” did not exist when bitcoin was invented.