The reason was anger, anger about high fees and impossible rules by banks in the far east.
Bitcoin itself with its fees, is close to copy the banks behavior back from those times.
Know body knows what satoshi nakamotor had in mind to create its currency called bitcoin, but today its creation and innovation has been a beneficiary to many people, so I believe that in time coming another person will have another insight to create its currency and worldwide will also be a beneficiary as worldwide is a beneficiary of invention of satoshi nakamotor.