I've been leaning towards doing the same with Interactive Brokers tbh.
Ontario declares State of Emergency!
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I've been leaning towards doing the same with Interactive Brokers tbh.
It is very important to self-custody bitcoin and cryptos. Not your keys, not your coins
good response
@deaddog was wondering if you can confirm or deny if there's a shortage of stuff at the stores?
I was with family members a few days ago and 1 of them spoke with relatives in Canada (Vancouver) who said there's empty shelves at the stores as people are hoarding
I'm just thinking with the trucks that deliver the supplies involved in protests if those shortages will get better any time soon
John;
No shortages that I have noticed but then I'm rarely the one doing the shopping. Nothing reported in the news.
Media is making a bigger deal of the protest than what is happening. Lots of trucks on the road hauling stuff that needs to be hauled. Media needs a good story to sell advertising, don't believe everything you hear.
The Governments reaction is a bit scary though. Freezing bank accounts that easily make one rethink how secure your nest egg might be. We depend on the Government to protect our deposits from bank failure but who is protecting us from Government failure.
This needs a triple like!
Makes you wonder if the same true with the whole Russia Ukraine ordeal. You have Biden administration and legacy media flouting imminent invasion and Russia and Ukraine yelling nothingburger. Then you hear Russia saying shelling from Ukraine hit a farmhouse and Ukraine yelling its bullshit.
So who's lying? Who knows. One thing we know for sure is no government or legacy media source in ANY country can either be trusted or considered credible. However, the news of war is whipsawing the markets.
Biden said he had credible intelligence of a false flag used by Russia to invade Ukraine markets tanked. Russia said it was pulling troops back to base as it was only a training drill markets shot up middle of night. Biden says an invasion is still likely markets tank again. The shelling if the farmhouse happened after markets closed so we'll see if that tanks futures more.
All this to say who the fuck knows what the markets are going to do, but it certainly seems like our medias and governments are wanting war, and that coupled with 40 year high inflation, rising interest rates, and low consumer confidence makes me think the markets will keep going down.
My mom is in ground-zero Ottawa. A week ago or more she tried to get a bottle of alcohol to finally get some rest and relax. Store was basically empty because nothing could be trucked in. She left empty handed. However, other places like Costco seem to be doing relatively ok (I think?).
That said, my worry is that Canada (which had a very bullish government on Bitcoin), may jump on the ban-crypto bandwagon now that it's being used by the protestors. Things may switch from giving crypto miners tax-breaks to banning it outright.
Things used to be very laxed on crypto so far, with easy enough ways to set up exchanges (legally), and dozens of crypto ETFs sold on the TSX.
You're jumping too far...
They just want to use it as a test to see what they can accomplish. Can they treat them as bank accounts? The answer is mostly yes.
