1. I think Times only chooses people who did something prominent in that year, so Satoshi would be already disqualified, since he was only active in 2009-2010.

2. Even if we nominate Bitcoin instead of Satoshi (yes, it's possible to nominate an object or an idea), do you really think it has any chance of winning right now? The current list of candidates includes Trump, Merkel, Macron, Greta Thunberg and other people who are covered by the news almost every day. Meanwhile many people have only heard about Bitcoin a few times in their life or maybe never.