There is an endless discussion that involes freedom of speech and freedom of privacy. Mixers are good but can be used by criminals and North Korean hackers. Is "bad people use it" enough to prevent actual privacy seekers? I for one would like for mixers to continue to exist, and in a utopian way, only be used by good people.
Seems like Lazarus group is a root cause of all mixer seizures recent years. Seems like Lazarus group is a favorite target of many governments and authorities so that if any mixer is used by Lazarus group, it will be automatically put in a black list of governments, authorities and will be in list of seizure attempts from governments.
The quote is interesting but it is true. Recent weeks, there is a lawsuit about Tornado Cash. A source code, a service is considered as a criminal tool but is it true by laws.
They have been the bane of all crypto world in my opinion, they have been in offensive, exchanges, gambling platform and anything that they can get their hands as we all know that this is state sponsored hacking group.
So yeah, it will be a endless debate here, some of us who uses mixers just want to be private, while there are groups that can take advantage of mixers. However, we've seen the ups and downs, when one mixers was seized, it open up a huge opportunity for other mixers to come into the picture and take a slice on that big pie.