Bitcoin is first and foremost a technology, therefore a tool. Then it's up to who use this tool and for what.

If there's a government in the equation it has always been a choice between two statist 'evils': fight (ban) it or co-opt (regulate) it.

That said from a technological soft-determinism perspective Bitcoin is decentralization-biased/oriented instead of Fiat-paper Money tech (clearly a centralized/centralizer one)

(Disclosure: I'm no AnCap, so i think some flrm of government/state is a necessary/inevitable evil. I''m just trying to be an objective analyst here)