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Now, my concern is, wouldnt it make sense to remove the Sinbad escrow address from this forum? And also remove anything that could make it easy for authorities to trace transactions from that address to this forum, and it's users?

Even if remove or edit their name or mentions and also wallet addresses from posts, even then it cannot be possible to stop the authorities from tracing because they are all archived. All we can do now is not mention anything related to them in any future posts. And I think that's why Theymos is going to introduce the new rule from January 1st.

Even if we did changed or edited everything, it still wouldn't matter. If a newspaper publishes an advertisement without knowing it's a scam, will the newspaper company be call criminal? I don't thing so. All the signature campaign started the campaign without knowing their bad sides. But now the accuse has been made, and the culprit has been caught, it is better to stop using or advertising their campaign. And as an additional plan to prevent any legal issue theymos already implemented the new rules. So, I guess nothing to worry about then.

I do not think that any authority is tracing any Sinbad to this forum. I mean that, seizing of the website and all the coins in it could be their priority.
I was even more scared during the seizure of Chipmixer whose offence was more severe than Sinbad. Even on the publication of chipmixer ban, bitcointalk was mentioned as a place of advertisement and nothing happened. In like manner, no authority is tracing Sinbad to the forum.

A lot of what you said here is potentially not factual after further clarification from recent posts.

Sinbad was a mixer that started by mixing illegitimate bitcoin, and achieved its goal by mixing the illegitimate bitcoin with legitimate bitcoin.

Chipmixer may have had the same origins, but it may not have too. That fact is still yet to be discovered. I believe that chipmixer ent down because it had too many bad people using it - LoyceV put it perfectly:

Quote from: LoyceV on December 05, 2023, 09:04:14 AM

Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on December 05, 2023, 06:12:49 AM

From an Elliptic.co blog post in February:

This is a very interesting link. It shows Sinbad received bad money even before they started. It looks more and more like they weren't "a good site also used by bad people", but they were "a bad site that needed good people to hide their bad money"! If that's the case, they had it coming. But taking down this site won't change anything except for slowing them down. Long-term, they'll continue elsewhere.
As much as I like privacy, I don't like criminals. And especially criminals who abuse good people's need for privacy to hide their own crimes.

It seems to me that ChioMixer was a genuine effort for Bitcoin privacy, while Sinbad was an operation made to mix the operators legitimate coins.