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It seems Canada matches the 'good banking system' and 'stable currency' attributes, yet didn't the truckers get robbed by the government?

When a government is able to engage in financial retribution against its critics, its own citizenry, Bitcoin might be necessary.

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Idk about that characterization, but I don’t see how crypto changes anything. They’ll just hold you in contempt until you turn over the keys or hack you.

Plenty of us have cold storage wallets from years ago. Not theoretically impossible to track but pretty darn difficult. To contrast, any and every bank account and ETF holdings (in the USA) are extremely KYC'd.

> yet didn't the truckers get robbed by the government?

No.

In the end, a few accounts were proactively and temporarily frozen by banks acting on their own, which they could (possibly would) have done due to fintrac [1] requirements.

[1] https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/intro-eng

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