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And1today at 1:47 PM4 repliesview on HN

Love to see it.

When Canada legalized weed in 2018, the US administration made it clear that they can ban Canadians from the US for life if they have used marijuana in the past. The administration alluded to looking at Canadian's transaction history to facilitate cracking down on this more harshly[1].

It was so clear at that point to me how badly sovereign payments and banking is so needed. FATCA is a thing, I get it, I get the motivation- but allow another country to wield a "cooperation" like a weapon to attack Canada's sovereignty is just further evidence that we need to safeguard our data.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit...


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Waterluviantoday at 2:02 PM

One silver lining of the current U.S. regime's behaviour is how it's forcing us to move out of the local minima of over-Americanization that we've been stuck in for too long.

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kvgrtoday at 2:26 PM

What makes you think EU will not look into it and block us from buying “bad things”?

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1234letshaveatwtoday at 2:45 PM

Like American DUIs?

kingleopoldtoday at 1:51 PM

what until you understand what is next, cdbc and restricted digital money. Enjoy it.