You don't need 1 BTC....have you ever used Bitcoin? You only need to pay a fee rate that will get you accepted in a block. The best way to put it, is that its an auction for block space.

I do agree that this (seeing Bitcoin as a commodity) is probably the wrong way to look at it though. I much prefer the social network principle as explained by libbitcoins wiki page (libbitcoin and Bitcoin core operate in consensus for the same network which we call Bitcoin.

I think the most important thing that the Mises guys are often wrong about, is forgetting a core piece of their own ideas, which is that economics is the study of human action and if an economy acts against what an economist predicts, then it is the economist who is wrong and must therefore update their hypothesis about human action.