Bitcoin is not a protest, don't make it sound political or some rebel forces. Bitcoin is a digital asset and it offers unique values that the traditional financial system has been lacking, but that doesn't make Bitcoin a protest or what ever you called it.
Bitcoin exposes and correct the flaws that the traditional financial system has, Bitcoin gives opportunities for privacy and anonymity making it even more sorted after. And now investors want some too.
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".
There certainly was a political component to it - protesting the unlimited bailouts, enabled by a fiat currency that wouldn't otherwise have happened as easily -- just as many things are enabled by fiat that wouldn't otherwise be viable without it. e.g. endless wars financed by inflation of fiat currencies so that the populace is fleeced at a rate of 3%-XX% per year.