What is the US system of governance? The constitution, the three branches, or the decision-making apparatus? One exists because of the others, and without one the others cease to exist in actuality. The constitution animates the governmental body, and the decision-making apparatus is the collective senses and actions.

What is a human being? The chemical reactions and the mass, or the rational soul? The being only exists as the combination of the two. Remove the soul, the animating force, from the body, and life ceases. The body grows cold and returns to the earth. Even in an empirical standpoint, a body that ceases to move is dead and will return to earth, and this is simply a semantic difference.

The Bitcoin asset is sats, bitcoin, an integer value, etc. It is not otherwise named. The Bitcoin network is a collection of nodes setup by people do have agreed to play by the rules. The Bitcoin ledger is the blockchain, the database of addresses and balances tracked. The asset costs energy to produce and move. Mining costs energy and is rewarded with a credit to the miners' addresses, and in so doing also validate the movement of other previously mined bitcoin.