War. Sanctions. SWIFT. Bitcoin. I should just stop there. Article finished. But that would be no fun. Bitcoin maxis are fond of asserting that Bitcoin is, “the mother of all assets” and handedly takes the crown as the best performing asset of the last twenty years, if not the last century. Yet despite Bitcoin’s success it has and continues to face fierce criticism from skeptics and doubters. It has followed a pattern of boom and bust since its inception, and at each peak has been labeled a “b...