I was wrong, we need crypto

That's the situation we are in with fiat currency. That's what central banks do.

And by the way no, sorry but that's absurd. There's a huge line between being a freedom gun loving American and being against enacting emergency measures that do away with due process because of a protest. To think canadians support this just to... own the Americans online? Is so ridiculous that it might border on satire.

Remember, trudeau is still in a minority government and lost popular vote twice in a row to the conservative party. The conservative party has voted against enacting emergency measures. So you might be living in a bubble where everyone actually supports this, but it's not representative of the electorate.

Trudeau is completely, completely losing it and that's coming from someone who has met him a few times when he was my MP. I also volunteered for his campaign back in 2015 and 2019. Yet to me he seems completely unhinged at this point.

You care about your goddamned Bored Apes and other ways of doing end runs around financial controls.

The convoy is anti-democratic. It is not a protest in the conventional sense. They are not petitioning for concerns to be heard; they are asking to be treated as if they were the real government. Many of them have bizarre legal theories and even started to swear each other in as peace officers to justify resisting with deadly force. The end goal of their actions were to get the government to declare itself illegitimate. Hey, I am often skeptical of the state too, but given the convoyers’ aims I would not expect the government to even talk to them.

Be real. This was no protest, and it wasn’t even analogous to an Occupy Wall Street action. A bunch of gullible people who had their brains hollowed out by Q, Facebook and Fox, led by opportunistic white supremacists and at least one literal Nazi, descended on the capital and crucial economic chokepoints to cause mayhem. There were a shocking number of US and Trump flags. In my city, these shitheads scheduled a convoy to pass by every major hospital and disrupt access. The organizers seem to believe doctors and nurses are in on the conspiracy. The hospital workers were advised not to wear scrubs in public lest they be harassed or attacked. I’m happy that Vancouver bicyclists stepped in to block them. But they wandered aimlessly around my neighborhood, and I have friends who’ve been harassed on the street for wearing masks.

It’s very tempting to let the state fuck these assholes up.

But I’ve been involved in a lot of protests and I expect these emergency powers to be used against more admirable causes next.

If you actually care about limiting the powers of the state, the answer is not to clutch your fucking crypto even harder. As already noted, the government can act against financial institutions and laundered coins and assets will be tracked.

Do something useful like donate to civil liberties associations, such as the CCLA, which has taken a stance against abuses of emergency powers and will bring a suit against the Canadian government.

https://ccla.org/press-release/ccla-calls-for-revocation-of-...

Yes, so crypto is just like fiat but without regulations or safe guards or insurance.

It's very very hard to do though with Bitcoin.

It's hard to manipulate the quantity of bitcoin --- not so hard to manipulate the price of bitcoin.