I don't think so, it's more likely a reference to bank cards, which people now use instead of cash (and operate through encoded account numbers).
In my view it means that P2P commerce has been eliminated and all transactions are mediated and approved by the 'authorities'.
Probably no reference to crypto codes. Bitcoin functions more like cash.
Great movie, though. And strangely predictive. The script was based on Huxley's 'A Brave New World' is my understanding.
I've read Brave New World, they're nothing alike buddy
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29"Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World."
"based on" is a poor choice of words.
I've read parts of the book. We might replace Fordism with Zuckism. Facebook doesn't just enable people to connect with each other, it mediates and organizes the communications in ways that influence behavior.
The result is a kind of enforced conformity which results in massive profits for a very few, and poverty for everyone else (that's the whole point of the design of the system). This alludes to the world depicted in the movie, where an invisible starving population lives underneath an affluent and secure one.
My point is that it is the rebels living underground who would be the ones who would use bitcoin. And it would be outlawed, of course. The DarkWallet project is a case in point. I think the devs see themselves as being part of a rebellion.