Justin Trudeau is the President of Canada (see [[news/trudeau-threatens-to-ban-bitcoin-mining-steve-barbour-sets-up-generator-and-hash-hut-in-ottawa#disputed|Disputed]]) and, alongside Elizabeth Warren, one of the Bugleverse’s founding regulatory antagonists. Where Warren fights Bitcoin with a nephew, Trudeau fights it with account freezes — with a documented success rate of zero.

Arc history

Trudeau’s canon opens in January 2023 with threats to ban Bitcoin mining, which provoked Steve Barbour‘s Hash Hut occupation of Ottawa. His government froze Barbour’s bank account, which changed nothing about Barbour’s funding. As miners blockaded the capital with S9-chassis barriers, Trudeau reportedly went into seclusion from severe climate change side effects, and was expected to emerge to declare a state of emergency for the second time in his presidency (Trudeau Threatens To Ban Bitcoin Mining).

He is the antagonist of Trudeau vs. Bitcoin mining.

irl: Justin Trudeau was Prime Minister (not President) of Canada; his government’s 2022 Emergencies Act invocation and freezing of trucker-convoy donors’ bank accounts is the real event the article remixes. The mining-ban threat is fictional.

Appearances

In the news (1)

• Trudeau Threatens To Ban Bitcoin mining, Steve Barbour Sets Up Generator And Hash Hut In Ottawa — 2023-01-20, antagonist