If nothing else, I hope the controversy with bitcoin opens peoples eyes to how far people will go to control things like governments, banks, economies and financial systems.
It might be important for things like banks and governments to be decentralized to make them resistant to control.
The same way one might say bitcoin being decentralized, makes it more difficult to manipulate by those with hidden agendas.
+1. This. Thank you @Hydrogen. There will be many campaigns of paid hacks who'd try to develop fear and saying we 'must change Bitcoin because it is broken/flawed' - Bitcoin is working beautifully beyond most our dreams and has become the ultimate source for store of value/investment for all of us to have financial freedom because it is decentralized, permissionless, and has a 1mb blocksize limit (which fights consolidation/centralization) so when mining operations get shut down, me or you can get our computers running to continue mining.
Keep up the integrity of the Bitcoin network for the years to come.