The really crazy thing to imagine is what will happen if the owners of some VERY old wallets with a lot of BTC in them come forward and offer to be the funders of future tools based on BTC. There are a few wallets that could potentially grasp control from larger institutions if Bitcoin was moved to a more prominent position in the financial landscape.

I'm not really much of a conspiracy theorist but imagine something like that has been the long vision this whole time!