Interesting scenario and even more interesting question.

I read an excellently written post by chekohler, The Argument Over Bitcoins Value, in which among many interesting point he mentioned something like Bitcoin is Energy, so I would go with that and would like to say that Bitcoin is the energy for them to operate properly, but that's not all, this topic has given me some wild imagination as well and I am going to write a post on it. I might get late to the competition participation but, no matter what, I'll publish that post.

Thanks for this interesting topic/idea.