{"id":226080,"date":"2022-03-03T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/?p=226080"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:19:18","slug":"actionable-insights-bitcoin-proves-its-mettle-during-russian-financial-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qa.bluevaultpartners.com\/actionable-insights-bitcoin-proves-its-mettle-during-russian-financial-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Actionable Insights: Bitcoin proves its mettle during Russian financial turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"
March 2, 2022 | Anastasia Amoroso | iCapital<\/p>\n
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A pivotal geopolitical moment may also have been a pivotal one for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Under pressure from governments, cryptocurrency platforms stood firm as independent, decentralized, and safe from central authority interference.<\/p>\n
The period we are living through now is going to be remembered for a long time. And there is a good chance it will be seen as a significant geopolitical inflection point. Last week we wrote how Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine will spur: the country\u2019s financial isolation (unless the regime drastically changes); a major acceleration of measures to improve energy security, via investments in both clean energy and domestic oil and gas production; and a sharpened focused on cybersecurity. This week another secular shift is in the making\u2014the testing and validation of Bitcoin as a haven.<\/p>\n
Here is how. On the back of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s actions, the ruble lost 27% of its value from last Thursday to this Tuesday1<\/sup>, Standard & Poor\u2019s cut Russia\u2019s credit rating to junk2<\/sup>, the country\u2019s default probability rose to 56%3<\/sup>, and there were queues to get money out of Russia\u2019s banks. Unfortunately, reports suggest that some forex ATMs exhausted their supply of foreign currency.4<\/sup> Mr. Putin issued a presidential decree banning residents of Russia from transferring foreign currency to accounts opened with banks located outside the country\u2019s territory effective March 1.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Amid this turmoil, Bitcoin rose nearly 15% from Monday morning to Tuesday afternoon.6<\/sup><\/p>\n