https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgmnpd/the-freedom-convoy-bitcoin-donations-have-been-frozen-and-seized > As Canadian protests against vaccine mandates rose to become a cause célèbre, millions of dollars in donations flew to a Christian crowdfunding site. But that site got hacked and also had to freeze millions of dollars meant for the self-styled “freedom convoy,” after the government enacted the Emergencies Act to cut off protesters from the financial system. > In that moment, Bitcoin entered the arena hoping to be the lead rescuer of the protesters from financial troubles, with the organizers of Bitcoin fundraiser HonkHonkHodl raising more than $1 million in the cryptocurrency. It was a big moment for Bitcoin, and the ideals that its proponents see in the cryptocurrency, like censorship-resistant money. "I still can't believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet,” David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp’s co-founder and a long-time anti-Bitcoiner, wrote in a blog titled “I was wrong, we need crypto,” at the time. . “And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto's fundamental necessity in Western democracies."