Bitcoin can protect people from :
1. Money inflation, that's meaning when the price of money of your country go down, your assets is still safe because bitcoin is cryptocurrency.
2. Devaluation, protect you when the goverment make a decision to lowered the price of money of your country.
3. Depresiation this same with devaluation, just because different reason or the goverment.
4. Natural disaster, protect your assets when your place got a natural disaster, because you invest your assets in digital.
5. Crime, protect your assets from s crime activity
Maybe another friends can give you another answer. Thanks