Fiat Fundraising Fiasco Sparks Bitcoin Donation Drive For Freedom Truckers
By Jessie Willms Since January 15, truck drivers and other service providers can only enter Canada if they are fully vaccinated. For almost two weeks now, a group of truck drivers have been protesting in Ottawa. The “freedom convoy” movement goes against the COVID-19 mandates, lockdowns and the use of the state’s force against basic human rights and freedom. The plan is to maintain the protest as long as it takes to bring about the changes they want.
To keep the movement going, a GoFundMe campaign was created in which they raised almost $10 million in donations. Unfortunately, “in one of the worst act of political corruption ever seen in Canada," as stated by the well-known philosopher and scholar Jordan Peterson, GoFundMe froze the truckers account at the request of Ottawa’s mayor. Fortunately, the movement is still going and they are now receiving unseizable Bitcoin donations.
At the time of writing, there is more than 1.45 bitcoin raised through Tallycoin, a crowdfunding platform built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, where users can show the true power of bitcoin as an unstoppable money, making it clear that shutting down centralized donation services will not be enough to end this standoff. | 