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"Look at my great new financial product!" just isn't that interesting from a theoretical perspective, even if it really is cool and innovative. Knowing how to implement an immutable distributed ledger won't help you understand anything about the economy on its own.

Not that creating Bitcoin wasn't an achievement, but it built upon heaps of existing systems that explored proof of work, distributed ledgers and so on.

The main innovation was the combination of ledgers with proof of work to prevent Sybil attacks in the face of a system with unidentified participants.

Those are computer science advances. The nobel prize for economics about economics, not comp sci. There isn’t new economic theory in bitcoin.