Not random bs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
In kenya you can pay a taxidriver with your mobile phone. In 2016 there was 7 million M-Pesa accounts. If you combine a service like M-pesa with a service like BlockPay, you have cash based on blockchain tech.. A year ago, you couldn't use ethereum or dash for anything useful. With blockpay you can use your dash or ethereum to buy stuff with your mobile phone..
I understand that there are cases you are making, but you missed the point I was making, which is it's a third world continent with the GDP of one US state. No one really cares what goes on over there besides the people living there. It has literally ZERO influence on market trades besides maybe blood diamonds, which has little to nothing to do with this conversation.
That aside, you can do everything you're talking about with BTC and still has nothing to do with the market that got pumped nor is it something that 'just' happened to trigger it.