I'm a person who would like to do some work for Bitcoin, so I monitor freelancing sites occasionally, and at this time I feel like the freelance market in Bitcoin is nearly dead. The Services board is 99% listings of services rather than people who are looking to buy some; XBTfreelancer is empty or has 1-2 projects most of the time; cryptogrind has mostly just ridiculously underpaid projects or again service announcements (shouldn't they be banned there?), and there's also not much available projects overall; workingforbitcoins has very little traffic, just a few projects per month.
It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?
Sad but true I used to do a lot of gigs and hire people for a gig in Fiverr, they used to accept Bitcoin for all their gigs but now they disable Bitcoin, and they still have no announcement if they are still going to accept Bitcoin again, Fiverr was a good opportunity for freelancers who wants to work for Bitcoin but after it was disabled, we have not seen a good and popular marketplace that hires people to do task for Bitcoin.
There were a lot of ICO's that plans to create one but they all failed miserably in the market, people are still hoping, Bitcoin could be a life saver for those who want to work from home doing a task.