With my view as at the time of writing , I think bitcoins will go long way to reduce poverty if they allow it achieve it's purpose. Reducing poverty in my context is not about profit but the peer to peer transaction mechanism. The idea of centralized exchange is very much in place because a lot of people are yet to accept bitcoins but once it become accepted by majority, I think there will definitely be no reason to convert to fiat.
Bitcoin doesn’t make people rich my friend. At the time, most of us have been able to make some money off it because of its volatile nature, serving as an asset and in turns, increase your hodlings when it pumps just as it reduces it when it dumps. The idea that accepting it for a means of exchange and reducing poverty doesn’t go very much as, it’ll be serving as a currency.
For all we know, serving as an asset could be a some worth passive idea that could die away with the times as the price progresses. When that happens, we could just have it as a store of wealth and it serves its currency purpose.
Hence, you don’t get to own what you don’t already have.