If you think Bitcoin was neutral, you need your head examined. It might be sort of normalized now, but you can't forget all the schemes, money laundering, drug sales, lulzsec/anonymous/wikileaks, etc stories that it carried and the anti-institution, anti-government, and anti-regular finance stance that the original Bitcoin was designed to go up against.

We're damn LUCKY that they didn't ban it outright back then, because its now too mainstream for them to. They got the fancy graphics, and the marketers, and all of this stuff NOW with Bitcoin, but it never started like that. It was essentially a middle finger to "normal" society, governments, institutions, banks, etc that only favored nerds. The only reason why they didn't ban Bitcoin at least in America, is because of the Libertarian lobbyists that went and talked (and almost lied mind you about the origin of it's existence, they simply omitted it and focused on the technology) to the fed, congress members, economists, etc, made a bunch of the fancy graphic design work, and made it palatable for mainstream consumption.

Because they are anarcho-capitalists and that subversion is exactly what their political goal is, is why Bitcoin became a household name. They also had a lot of powerful people like Peter Thiel and others involved, conventions where they gave out bitcoin, etc. They may not win elections, but they could certainly move the needle around. Adam Kokesh, the Free State Project/Cop Block crew/etc, and other organizations did just that.

I'm positive this will see a lot of attention *because* it's crypto old skool. However, the next Bitcoin will likely be an AML/regulatory compliant coin when Bitcoin becomes too slow, too many crap coins are released, and the big government hammer gets struck from 8/10 people losing money in the markets from the obviously crap pump and dump coins that even get enough funding for listings now because the devs were releasing crap coins for years and now have enough spare btc to pay for them.

For now, though. Old skool ways prevail. This is probably top candidate.