Traditional money (paper in lieu of Gold, but both as objects) is a physical object you can hold that does not require electricity, or entire societies of men who show up to work every morning to engineer and run your worlds power grids.

For bitcoin to exist, computer manufacturers have to exist. Power plants. Internet. Consumerist society. Some random company has to produce a silicon and glass device that runs a different companies software, on another companies network, accessing many many other companies machines for data exchanges. "Currency" is a thing onto itself and does not require an entire society and entirely different money system to exist, but rather, the existence of "money" as a thing TO be traded generates society from that point, outward.

If you look around you and see that pretty much everyone has a computer and internet connection. Its easy to get lost in consumerism and bitcoin, and even the internet itself.

The world does not actually work this way. However.

Who is John Galt?