They could still receive crypto, but for what purpose? The Canuckistanian dictator banned the banks and crypto exchanges from interacting with certain wallets. So while private transactions might still work, those crypto wallets were cut off from the system, in which case you might as well be dealing in bullion. Without the ability to convert crypto to CAD or make trades through the exchanges, it lost most of the benefits of crypto.
I'm Gen X, not a boomer, and have been working in tech for 30 years from software development to IT strategist. Of course crypto is a scam, or least it's a scam the way most people want to see it, as an investment.
Why is crypto valuable?
Because other people want to buy it.
Why do other people want to buy it?
Because it's valuable.
That's a pyramid scheme, and the value depends entirely on the greater fool.
I'm sure you'll try to claim the same of gold, but that's just false equivalence. Metals are physical and limited by reality, crypto can be forked infinitely. Metals have industrial value, crypto has no value other than trading for other currencies. At best, crypto is just another currency. And a bad one at that. Because for crypto to have the feature that everyone loves about it - increasing in value - that means it is by definition deflationary, and will never be useful as a currency for purchasing.
To be generous, the best case description of crypto is that it's a cryptographic ledger system for currency swaps.
It's too complicated for grandma and grandpa to use easily and securely, so no. It's a pyramid scheme for nerds.
I recently heard about a friend of a friend who decided to retire from IT and trade crypto instead. He had six figures worth of crypto stolen (don't know the details of how) and is despondent.
Been playing a lot of Foundry, a recently Early Accessed factory gameI'll probably start another factory game, maybe give Dyson Sphere another try.
I also took a little break from building factories to play Last Campfire, a cute little puzzle game from the No Mans Sky studio that was cheap on Steam the other day. Well worth a couple bucks if you see it on sale.
Beyond being one of the best Star Treks, Undiscovered Country is a phenomenal movie. The TOS cast was at the top of their game, and the writing and story were excellent.
I agree, It's ridiculous what Hollywood is pumping out these days. Idiotic pap written by inexperienced morons. Every remake is worse than the source material, only intended to please pink haired intersectional studies majors who are offended by the lack of strong female leads in the original.
Voyager was an average Star Trek series overall, but it will be funny when they get around to remaking that. Janeway will be turned into a troon and Chakotay will be a lesbian just to get the two of them into bed. Because Hollywood has no creativity or writing ability, and just puts a chick in it and makes her lame and gay.
After twelve rounds of rewrites and reshoots and focus groups that modern $250M production budget movies go through now, you gotta release something eventually. So they cobble together some of the least bad footage and hope for the best. It's a hot mess of corporate diarrhea, with no respect for the art of filmmaking.
Jews are white and not white, whatever is to their benefit at the time.
Jews: "White people are the worst, and we should know because we're white. Hating whites is good."
Also Jews: "Whoooa, you can't hate us, we're Jews! That's antisemitic!"