When — and not if — a global currency crisis does occur, however, many Bitcoin users believe that the decentralized, border-less, peer-to-peer, and open-access digital currency can serve as a life raft in an ocean of financial calamity. Furthermore, recent global financial system “stresses” such as Brexit, Bank of Japan’s helicopter money plans, and China’s bubble economy are also often accompanied by Bitcoin price upticks. But Antonopoulos doesn’t see this as a positive sign in an event of a full-scale collapse of the global monetary system.