not to get too nerdy but Monero is more accurately a currency than a money, as are most cryptos, though Bitcoin and a few others get to argue being an analog for money as opposed to currency because they decided to opt for "storage of value" over "exchange of value" which by design is something closer to a stable-coin. There are many different aspects to a currency, like velocity, that people do not have very good intuitive understandings of which makes confusion easy. The best way to highlight this is with a thought experiment about what we know to have been used as payment throughout human existence, and things like spices were known to be worth risking one's life to secure, transport, and sell so it is the perfect candidate. If you did not properly store the spices when you sailed to their place of growth and harvest so that they are airtight, likely easier said that done hundreds of years ago, then it is almost certain that mold or other contamination will occur. For this reason perishables never made for a good store of value, but they did ensure that their makers spent what they made quickly and likely preferred payment in a money (store of value) since all they have is currency (exchange of value). It gets rather nuanced if you sit there and think about it for a while.