if anything it'll do the exact opposite (if the fantasy of bitcoin being adopted as global currency were ever to come to pass) ... why ? ... distribution of fiat money aka wealth in this world , as far as wealthy vs poor goes in a simplified perspective is 1% holds 1/2 of all the wealth while the other 99% of humanity holds the other 1/2 ... that's 70,000,000 people holding 1/2 of the wealth of the world ... in bitcoin , you've got an estimated 1000 people holding roughly 3/4 of all bitcoin in existence (thanks to the initial complete lack of public awareness under the radar distribution of bitcoin ... cough ... pyramid ... cough ... ponzi ... cough) ... so you'd be looking at wealth disparity , give or take , 100,000X worse than current wealth disparity ... you'd essentially have 1000 likely tyrannical money-hyper-overlords who are 100,000X more wealthy vs the rest of the population as compared to today's billionaires and 8-9 figure multi-millionaires , 1,000,000 extremely-extremely wealthy people (anyone who holds any amount of bitcoin whatsoever today all rendered 8-9-10 figure wealthy in today's dollar terms , depending on whether they have 0.1 1 or 10 btc) , and the other 7 billion people (the other people who don't have any bitcoin today) ... so yeah ... it most definitely will not do a god damn thing to help combat global poverty ... unless of course one of the btc-multi-trillionaires decides to start paying poor families 0.05 btc per family member sacrificed mayan style on the steps of their pyramid ... then ... yknow ... less poor people what with less human population
Let us not take things in the world such as poverty and unemployment be ended just by bitcoin. We have to remember that there are countries who does not want the bitcoin system be in their territory. It is not just about positive thoughts but they are also afraid of what it can do in the future. What if they depend on it and then suddenly bitcoin disappear. Or maybe the price of it decreases. There are so many probable events in bitcoin. It will not end the poverty yet it will surely lessen since it is helping people nowadays since the price is high.