The way I look at it, the whole point of the exercise is that nobody (no governments, no corporation, no billionaire with a twitter account) can affect the netw

The way I look at it, the whole point of the exercise is that nobody (no governments, no corporation, no billionaire with a twitter account) can affect the network itself. If Bitcoin can't deliver on that promise, it doesn't deserve to exist and anybody who didn't do their due diligence should lose all their money (including me). As long as the network is alive, it will have some value to some people somewhere.