Bitcoin was made for political reasons (at least partly):
Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of
freedom for several years.
Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled
networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be
holding their own.
It's very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I'm better with code than with words though.
Embedded in the genesis block, which is required for running Bitcoin:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks