I think this puts to rest those conspiracy theories about Chipmixer being a honeypot operated by government agencies.
I doubt this will affect regular users but there is a possibility they could try to shut down this forum. There is already a similar precedent when Deep Dot Web was seized by the FBI. It would be an overreach for them to go this route but if they really wanted to shut down BitcoinTalk this would be their best opportunity. As far as I'm aware Chipmixer didn't advertise anywhere else besides this forum.
Oh yeah, there was such a rumor going around. I remember that!
But then again, the conspiracy theorists will just make up another conspiracy. For example, the newest conspiracy could be that the honey pot was discovered or they decided it was not viable anymore and it got shut down. And the entire seizure is just the FBI's excuse to make it look like it was never a honey pot.
Honestly, I did not really believe the first conspiracy theory so I am not going to believe any subsequent theories.