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The Risks of Keeping Your Crypto on an Exchange
By Adam Sharp on February 18, 2022
This week the Canadian government ordered crypto exchanges to freeze certain accounts tied to the Ottawa freedom protest. This set off a wave of concern over the risk of government seizing crypto assets. And that’s a very real danger. There was an interesting exchange on Twitter where Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, essentially said government seizures…