On top of that people who want US goods like movies need USD to buy them. Further, US companies foreign profits need to be converted back to USD to pay out dividends. Apple may sell a Chinese made iPad in China, but the profit needs to be converted to USD.
There are more transactions, and of larger volume, and more savings between EU citizen than between US citizen.
Yet, the EUR is only ~20% of global currency volume, and over 60% is in USD. That is all due to international transactions.
To be a medium of exchange something needs to have value. Euro's are unstable due to polical issues, but the EU's economy is why it has any value in the first place. Now this has and will change over time, but it's really stability not military power that backs the adoption of USD's.
Energy is what is scarce, has real value, and what drives the economy. At some point in the future, after the hype has died, it won't be worth the energy to mine bitcoin.