Just off the top of my head, I'm not sure that the blockchain itself could be seen as a resource. However, the mining pool that makes transactions happen (and

Just off the top of my head, I'm not sure that the blockchain itself could be seen as a resource. However, the mining pool that makes transactions happen (and expensive to cheat) could certainly be seen as a resource. In fact, one might be able to make an argument that the overall mining hashrate sets an upper bound on the value of BTC. It would be related to the cost of the CPU resources necessary to cheat.