That's the point. If you're a criminal, you don't get to keep the proceeds of your crime. In this case, people were blocking streets and creating nonstop noise disturbances in order to get donations from foreigners who wanted to shut down the city.
Or do you think I should be able to pay a trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn all night? If so, the way to solve it isn't to let anybody get money for any illegal activity (which is only possible on Bitcoin because regulation hasn't caught up, not for any technical reason) but to make it legal for me to pay the trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn.
That's a big "if", and it's operating under the assumption that it was objectively correct for the Prime Minister of a civilized nation which claims to be a democracy to invoke emergency powers and declare a group of protestors to be criminals, bypassing due process that a civilized nation which claims to be a democracy should be using to reach that conclusion.
Is that the kind of democracy you'd like to live in, where any group of people can suddenly be declared criminals without due process?
> Is that the kind of democracy you'd like to live in, where any group of people can suddenly be declared criminals without due process?
No. The solution is to use democracy to require due process.
Bitcoin remains the wrong solution for both the reasons I gave in my GP comment. It (1) doesn't get around financial regulations that can freeze access to real money and (2) even if it could, allowing funding of any type of crime is the wrong solution.
Finally, even in this case, the truckers were given access to their bank accounts right after they left because their money can't be seized without due process, which won't happen for this guy whose Bitcoins were stolen. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo...
Or do you think I should be able to pay a trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn all night? If so, the way to solve it isn't to let anybody get money for any illegal activity (which is only possible on Bitcoin because regulation hasn't caught up, not for any technical reason) but to make it legal for me to pay the trucker to block your driveway and honk their horn.