Quote from: NotATether on Today at 04:42:59 PM

The problem here is that governments stopped going after the real scammers a long (decades) time ago, because they can't do that with the technical and social infrastructure they've got, but it's certainly possible. So they have resorted to criminalizing any service that is used by scammers, including legitimate ones

I don't understand why Chipmixer gets a pass for storing our private keys and whatever other data they have despite constantly assuring us that keys are deleted and no data is logged. He literally committed the cardinal sin of privacy. What if that data is released during the court proceedings? Sure it sucks for drug dealers and hackers, whatever, but what pisses me off is all the people who used Chipmixer to protect their privacy for morally good reasons. People in countries where Bitcoin is illegal, and the people who used Chipmixer to donate to organizations or causes that go against what their government supports.

What comes to mind right now is what's going on in Ukraine (and set aside your views on that for a moment). Imagine a Russian citizen who donates funds to support Ukraine's defense and hid that transaction from the Russian government with Chipmixer. On the other hand, imagine a Ukrainian citizen who donated Bitcoin to practically any Russian company in the past year and hid that with Chipmixer. If this data leaks and it's bad, both of those people are facing prison or death.

Chipmixer really scammed us. I personally don't have too much to worry about and maybe you don't either, but there are people who are terrified right now of all the data he kept.