First off, in your face to all those "Bitcoin failed as a safe haven" anti-Bitcoiners.

I can't remember when Bitcoin rallied so much and stocks plummeted at the same time. This my friends, is cause for celebration🥳 and a bit of trolling😂

These are the times people usually lose everything or play it wisely and become rich. Two sides of the extreme I know, but if you had the Ruble as a forex investment, it's no looking too good right now, but on the other hand, the dip has been bought several times already. Someone made a small fortune as someone else sold at a major loss, while someone else held on and is hoping to break even. This is pretty much the play field in most major shifts in the market.

So, what's been happening? Well, wayyyyyy too much to cover everything that's worth mentioning actually🤯 But let's summarize the most important:

The Chinese alternative to SWIFT, the CIPS saw it's stock skyrocket after the EU finally after 8 years of pressure from London and Washington decided to agree and disconnect Russia from SWIFT, which irony above all irony is a Belgium and thus EU company.

For those not really up to date, talks to block Russia from SWIFT were ongoing for almost 9 years now ever since the heights of the Syria war and the Ukraine coup when Russia took Crimea. Since then Russia has been developing and already completed it's own alternative, the SPFS.

Some attribute all this to the recent Bitcoin jump, namely because Russian citizens holding the Ruble wanted to seek a save haven and the billionaires who are sanctioned personally want to circumvent it as much as possible. The latter is even blocked by Binance. I wouldn't wait to find out if Binance or any other centralized exchange will do the same to other Russian citizens even though they claim they won't. Seriously it's 2022, how many times do we need to say it? Not you keys, not your Bitcoin. I can't wait for the day the headlines read "Centralized exchange had no accounts to freeze after Washington's sanctions".

But before we get too joyful and opportunistic, let's not forget we are in some serious dangerous times right now and literally anything can happen.

The world will never be the same way it was again, even if a wider war does not break out. If it does, well let's just say we would be lucky if there would still be a world left.

To get back on point, airline shares are another thing that took a major hit, this because EU member state airlines must now all circumvent Russia to get to Asia, and Asians going to Europe will be avoiding EU carriers since these can not take the fastest and cheapest route and must take "a slight" detour. How slight? Well, just look at the wold map 🌍😉 Meanwhile oil is reaching highs not seen for years, not to mention natural gas. It's crazy to think that less than 3 years ago, oil was 12 Dollars a barrel and now 102. The combination of these 2 factors could very well be the end for many EU airliners as tickets will be too expensive due to the increasing gas prices and their routes to Asia even more so because it would logically need more fuel for every single flight while e.g. China Southern, Cathay Pacific or Malaysia Airlines can offer both lower prices and shorter travel time to it's passengers.

It's almost as if the claims that Bitcoin is "too swingy" applies to a lot more markets than anti-Bitcoiners would like to admit🤔