Bitcoin will never free us from governments, or even help alleviate poverty anywhere.
Bitcoin will free us from government, so everything it's base on your perspective and assumptions, from my own theory of understanding cryptocurrency, i may said that Bitcoin specially have eradicated poverty since it's existence, if you have invested in cryptocurrency and and adventure into profit before, you will understand that Bitcoin is really elevation.
Bitcoin is an asset, a currency, and possibly a payment method. The utility that bitcoin brings is too great, don't let that mean that people can exaggerate bitcoin excessively. Bitcoin helps us reduce our dependence on the government to some extent, but it cannot completely free us from the government. They will find a way to control us when we are beyond their reach, we are living under the regime they created.