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Is Bitcoin Freedom Money or a Tool for Sanctions Evaders?

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Are Up - Why?

Stocks, of course, aren't down just because of war. This particular shock also feeds into the fear of sustained high inflation. Commodity prices are rising. Oil is its highest since 20 14. European natural gas is up over 16 %. Wheat prices are at their highest level since two thousand eight so what, then? One could be it's the result of buyers in ukrane and russia. But we need to be tempered in how strongly we draw any conclusions right now. Things are moving fast. There's lots of potential explanations for almost everything that we're seeing. And to assert that it is one thing or another is generally going to be an act of narrative making

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