Concerns surrounding global monetary policy have been a major driver of bitcoin prices, as has been made abundantly clear over the past 30 days. As worries of inflationary quantitative easing and capital restrictions placed on individuals by their governments become increasingly prevalent, global citizens are looking to store wealth in a number of places outside of their own currency. Historically, gold and other precious metals have served as the de facto alternative asset classes to protect against inflation, but the difficulty of transporting gold makes it both costly to trade in it’s true form and virtually impossible to use for …