Its an open network anyone can participate even banks and states and countries. That they are evolving their positions on it shows growth of the network. They can only control what you give them to borrow against or what they take possession of themselves. When its widely viewed as a savings technology it will be widely accepted as a unit of account. Its adoption happening. Bitcoin is a savings technology that opens up financial services to billions of unserved world citizens. It gives people a chance to save for a better life, which is hope for billions of people. Hope is all any of us need to continue to get up day after day and make the lives of yourself and loved ones better. Have faith!

You think that the elite have more control of bitcoin than its users? Do you run a node or miner or gave self custody? Its the self interest of those that do that give it its value and its the savers that set the bottom of the bear markets. By that metric we know that adoption is happening.