So, after this long anecdote, the point is that the upswing in BTC could very well be due to the Chinese peeples wanting to hedge their exposure to the yuan/RMB AND to gett assets abroad in a hidden form that the PRC would presumably have difficulty tracing and CONfiscating via BTC purses as a conduit and/or reservoir of that wealth. While also willing to take the chance of their bitcoin wallet going poof into thin air or stolen. There really isn't any thing safe about bitcoin.