Some of the most incredible people that ever lived exercised their free will to it peak and it brought huge revolution to so many sectors of the world. For me, it's a discovery of the creative part of self that tells of my ability to becoming whatever and whoever I chose to be.
from elementary knowledge we've been told that man is a free moral agent which means that we have the ability to think things the way our knowledge capacity can carry and through our thoughts, ideas can spring out which could go on to become the one big thing that's needed to change the world for the better. Like you've said, Bitcoin is what it is now because someone made use of his number 9 and after it must have been worked upon and lots of improvements made, it's seen to have gotten this far.
But you know the fear of acceptance could kill our self will and put us in a position where we totally depend on people's ideas and knowledge as though nothing good can ever spring out of us.