THELOGICALINDIAN - Over the aftermost anniversary theres been a lot of altercation about Canada freezing agenda bill accounts that are associated with the Canadian truckers Freedom Convoy Amid the contemporary chat it should be fatigued that decentralized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum cannot be arctic anon aural the arrangement However the Canadian government can banderole specific agenda bill addresses and booty it alike added by allurement centralized entities like crypto exchanges and acquittal processors to benumb the funds
Canadian Officials Can Flag Crypto Addresses and Threaten Exchanges, but They Can’t ‘Freeze Bitcoin’
Last week, the Canadian government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the country’s Emergencies Act and allowable Canada’s agitator costs action in adjustment to absolute cryptocurrencies donations. Trudeau and the government did this to annihilate the protesters application the streets of Ottawa.
The Canadian government managed to get Gofundme to shut down the Freedom Convoy’s fundraiser and it flagged 34 crypto addresses allegedly associated with crypto fundraisers. Reports had adumbrated that Canada’s badge beatific belletrist to banks and crypto-asset exchanges and insisted that companies “cease facilitating any transactions” with the above flagged addresses.
According to a cardinal of banking institutions and crypto companies, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) did in actuality accelerate the letters. Furthermore, addition report capacity that an Ontario Superior Court adjudicator has ordered banking institutions to benumb any assets angry to the Freedom Convoy including agenda assets.
The adjustment reportedly acquired from a “secret hearing” accomplished by Ottawa association and advocate Paul Champ. “I can affirm that this is the aboriginal acknowledged Mareva adjustment in Canada targeting bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges,” Champ explained to the press.
Meanwhile, admitting the account that allocution about anon freezing crypto assets, it should be acclaimed that this can alone appear by aggressive administration and targeting crypto-to-fiat off-ramps.
It is absurd to benumb a bitcoin (BTC) or ethereum (ETH) abode and cede it abortive to the owner. The alone way to do that is by application force or threats of imprisonment or afterlife and ultimately accepting a crypto owner’s clandestine keys. This is why fundraisers, like the BTC armamentarium that aloft 21 bitcoin, utilize multi-signature controls.
According to the software developers abaft the non-custodial bitcoin wallet Nunchuk, the aggregation was beatific a Mareva admonition letter. Nunchuk wrote back to the Ontario Superior Cloister of Justice and told the cloister it could not accede with the orders.
“Dear Ontario High Court Judge, Nunchuk is a self-defense, collaborative, multi-sig bitcoin wallet,” the Nunchuk team’s letter says. “We are a software provider, not a aegis accounts intermediary. Our software is chargeless to use. While attention privacy, it helps bodies to annihilate distinct credibility of abortion and save bitcoin as cautiously as possible.” Nunchuk’s letter adds:
Kraken’s CEO Jesse Powell: ‘We Cannot Protect You — Stick to Real Crypto’
Kraken’s CEO Jesse Powell explained on Twitter that if bodies are afraid about accepting their crypto funds arctic again they should not accumulate crypto on centralized platforms. Responding to addition commenting about crypto exchanges freezing funds, Powell said that this was “100%” the case.
“100% yes it has/will appear and 100% yes, we will be affected to comply,” said Powell. “If you’re afraid about it, don’t accumulate your funds with any centralized/regulated custodian. We cannot assure you,” Powell Tweeted. In a after tweet, Powell discussed that activity on-chain to top assets tokens like stablecoins may not be safe either.
“You’re not necessarily safe aloof activity on-chain,” Powell said. “The top assets tokens with centralized arising and redemption, like USDT and USDC accept centralized ascendancy of benumb functionality that can be commandeered as calmly as a coffer account. Stick to absolute crypto,” he added. Both USDC and USDT issuers accept arctic specific stablecoin addresses in the past.
In July 2020, Circle’s Centre Consortium blacklisted $100,000 in USDC afterwards accepting a request from law enforcement. Tether has blacklisted hundreds of USDT addresses and aftermost month, the aggregation froze $160 actor account of USDT. So while agenda bill exchanges, crypto acquittal processors, banking institutions, and banks can “cease facilitating any transactions” with crypto addresses, decentralized assets or “real crypto” cannot be commandeered unless the accounts’ clandestine keys are taken by threats or concrete force.
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