Can You Count on Bitcoin in a Global Crisis? Maybe Not.

If there were a time for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) to shine, a geopolitical crisis would seem to be it.

After all, Bitcoin's biggest backers argue that the cryptocurrency is a necessary alternative to fiat currency because central banks and governments can't be trusted and government-backed currencies lose value through inflation.

In theory, Bitcoin solves both of those problems as a decentralized currency on the blockchain with a mathematically limited supply at 21 million. In practice, it's not so simple.

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