Bitcoin truly is a gift to the world but it could have helped so many more people. It's a shame that it only truly benefits a small portion of the global population. It could've changed the world on a comprehensive societal and economic level.
Any thoughts?
There has never been any technology that received massive adoption by the whole world when it is newly introduced. Bitcoin even did well to an extent to have gotten this mass adoption even when the government was obviously against it in the beginning. There is existence of gold where people save their fiat against inflation, but not everyone has got a gold. It is not also everyone that are into bonds and stocks. So even if bitcoin is made to be free for anyone to acquire, there are still people that will not grab the free Bitcoin. In fact when bitcoin was newly created, the value was so ridiculous that it could be called a free coin. But how many people bought it and how many people believed the coin till today?
One big problem of humanity is their inability to adapt and accept new technology or changes to what they already know. There are still old men in my neighborhood who argue that an individual cannot create a currency, that it is only the government that has the power to create a currency. The boldly call bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. So what do you say of those people, even if you gift them bitcoin they will not accept it. So, let's just allow it be, if everyone is involved in bitcoin, where will be the fun then?