To be honest, it is not for everyone. I mean, while Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies offer an open decentralized financial system that anyone can use without asking for "other peoples permission", it doesn't necessarily mean it's the right investment for everyone. Bitcoin's value can be incredibly volatile, and as with any investment, there's no guaranteed return. Hence, it's best to approach it with caution. Don't forget the saying you often here in this forum, "Only invest what you can afford to lose". For someone living paycheck to paycheck, or without an emergency fund, putting their money into Bitcoin might be a risky move. Even though Bitcoin is for everyone to use as a means of transaction, as an investment, it requires careful consideration, research, and understanding of one's financial situation and risk tolerance.
It seems to me that the starting presumption should be that bitcoin
is for everyone because bitcoin is open for everyone to choose whether or not to get involved in it, whether to study it, whether to invest into it, whether to develop upon it, whether to mine it. Bitcoin is not closed to anyone, friends or enemies, governments or institutions, rich people or poor people.
Just because there are barriers and even people (governments) trying to stop normies from getting involved in bitcoin, that is not about bitcoin restricting anyone. Bitcoin is open for everyone and for anyone... and some people might need to learn some things about bitcoin if they want to participate at higher levels of involvement. including if some people do not have any discretionary income then they won't be able to buy any bitcoin until they get some discretionary income, and sure, they could use bitcoin in a gambling kind of way, too.. no one is stopping them, but it probably is not good to gamble with bitcoin since it is amongst the best of asset classes that man has ever seen (if not the best).. .it surely is a product of current times, since bitcoin was not really possible in its current form prior to having worldwide ways of communication, such as bitcoin using the internet as a backbone, even though there can be other ways that nodes and miners could synchronize if the internet did not exist, but the internet surely helps to make bitcoin much more powerful than it would be under the use of other forms of communication.
In this thread some members seems to be mixing up outside forces and saying that everyone cannot get into bitcoin because some people have outside forces that they have to overcome in order to get into bitcoin and they might have to go to jail if they try to use or get involved in bitcoin, and surely those people have to make decision about what to do, but those kind of restrictions are not being caused by bitcoin.
Other members are saying that there are aspects of bitcoin that require money, time, or various kinds of knowledge, so surely it is true that some people in society have more knowledge, time and money than others, and so those barriers to bitcoin could have a disparate impact upon folks who are able to participate in bitcoin in terms of both quantity of participation and maybe even the kinds of participation.. but that still does not seem as if bitcoin is excluding anyone.. and yeah sometimes people are not going to be able to fix some aspects of their lives, such as money, time and knowledge.. but does not seem correct to be saying that bitcoin is not available to them or that they might not benefit from bitcoin even if they might not be able to involve themselves in it.
