Bitcoin is the new gold, bitcoin value is ten times the price of 1 once of gold.
In fact, as gold a lot of people can win money dealing with bitcoin or others crypto currencies (more than 3 000 registered)
We have to remember that the Californian or Klondike miners have just earn enough money for day to day living.
The reel winners was those who were selling shovels and picks, banks and others pawnbrokers.
I don't say that Bitcoin and the blockchain are not bringing any value, but ordinary people will not see what they brings to their life before years if they see it.
Governments and Banks first rejected the bitcoin. Their main argument was that bitcoin favoured gangsters and dirty money laundering. Doing this they have prevent people from early adopting bitcoin. Today, banks own millions of bitcoins and governments adapt their legislation for bitcoin.
Now people want their share too and begin to invest in bitcoin. For the majority of them is too late they cannot even have a fraction of bitcoin.
If you have read about bitcoin and blockchain, you know that there is many ways to earn a few bitcoin or some satoshi.
Here is the problem, people want bitcoin and spend one or two hundred of their hard earn dollars to get some.
First we have had the faucet websites, half of them was or are fraudulent.
Then the Hash mining websites where 99% of them are scam.
In addition, we have now the exchanges. I have to pay $33 dollars to move $100 in bitcoin from an account to another.
This remind me the middle age, where merchants have to change their coins for another
according to the city they went to. As every lords or free cities had their own coins, they were loosing a lot of money in changes.
Bitcoin was first created in reaction to the 2008 financial crisis to bring a solution to the financial system, today we can see that the financial system has already fully integrated the bitcoin...