Unfortunately, Bisq's twitter admin has stepped into this drama. Yesterday he retweeted a post that disparaged Samourai Wallet, and many interpreted that as support for Wasabi. Today he justified his post, which I believe has since been taken down.
I don't want to ruin day to anyone but I think that some people working on Bisq exchange are in the same time working on new Wasabi wallet.
That could have good and bad sides depending how things go in future with regulations and blacklisting transactions.
I can't be 100% about this connections and I don't have any evidence for this claims, it's all speculation.
If you don't believe me, just google "chipmixer" and witness all the scams that pop up in it's place. That would never happen if they were FED.
Scammers don't really care who is the fed and who isn't, they are cloning any popular service because they can profit from this and steal money.
I don't know how can you be so sure that Samourai/Whirlpool or anything else is a part of fed or some other government agency, especially if something is open source.
They usually like to make things closed source like it was done in the case with honeypot Anom smartphones with Arcane OS that was sold to criminals for ''secure communication''.
Wasabi are provably spying on you, and there is nothing you can do about it. I wouldn't use either.
I don't think this statement is true, at least not for now, until proven differently.
Wasabi is not spying on you and with Tor enabled they don't even know your real IP address.
Centralized exchanges are spying people for sure. they are blacklisting, freezing coins, closing accounts, and most people are still using them.