Correct. The author wrote it out of existence with a one-liner:

“The dollar is a historied currency that’s stabilized the international economy for over a century, Wilbur. The bancor is an upstart pretender whose constraints are unworkably strict. We just have to hold our nerve. After all—look at what happened to bitcoin.”

IMO, Shriver had to write #Bitcoin out of existence to tell the story she was creating. The story with Bitcoin would have been quite different.