The whales aren't the only individuals that hinders bitcoin from becoming a true decentralized currency but also the existence of the government and the law in each and every country in the world. We are all aiming or hoping that someday sooner, bitcoin and other crypto will be accepted by the world hence we know that the government are the only ones capable of allowing such thing to happen. The nation's voice wouldn't make it possible no matter how much they protest of revolutionize about it so we will be forced to settle and obey the rules they will give about the regulation of crypto that will surely remove its decentralization at some point.