Bitcoin is growing very powerfully but in this present scenario which factors can destroy or make its market value Zero.
Bitcoin has the potential to become useful but powerful? Not likely and it sure isnt useful yet. 95 percent of the services I buy and sell are not available with bitcoin. I most cases I cant use bitcoin to buy stock, bonds, a car, food, electricity, tires on and on and on. It must become pervasive for it to really become useful. I have hope this can happen but there is a long way to go.
To use my possible bitcoin profits, I must got through an exchange and governments can shut them down in a second. If that happens its only blackmarket central, nothing else.
As for who or what can take bitcoin out, at this point in time the US government can stop this thing dead in its tracks. Make bitcoin transactions illegal and all its good for is use in the blackmarket. That will still be big but nothing compared to what it could be.