First up, idiotic headline. You can't seize a crypto wallet.
They froze accounts where people were letting a third party hold their crypto.
If you don't control your private keys, you don't own the crypto.
Don't use coinbase or a web wallet, dumbasses. Use a wallet where you control the private keys. Always.
Exactly, if you hold crypto in an exchange, they hold the crypto and you just have a promise (IOU) that they will pay you back when you want it. Until something like this happens.
I don't think they know whether these are exchange accounts or not, although it's not hard to figure out.
If they were private wallets, I'm not sure there is much they can do to stop those funds from moving around. But since they've de-banked these protestors, they will have a very hard time ever converting it into cash in Canadia.
The answer is not to convert it to cash. The answer is to use it as currency and neuter the government and central banks. That was ALWAYS the point of crypto. Canadians need to start using it as currency INSTEAD of their national currency.
Convert it into gold, the real money through the ages.
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