I'd expect a more careful approach towards mixers from someone who's in possession of banned funds.
If you say that yourself, you make me think that what we have repeated so much over the years about bitcoin being uncensurable has been revealed to be untrue. We've seen some opinions along those lines in the following thread as well:
OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions Being CensoredBut I disagree with you on the other point:
I don't think raising pay rates right after
theymos announced mixers will be banned is a smart thing, and I don't think it
increasing advertising efforts is correct use of the month given:
To avoid disruption, there will be a grace period: Nothing will change until Jan 1, 2024.
I don't see what difference it makes. Mixer campaigns have decided to continue during the grace period, and some have decided to raise rates (probably because they have just started advertising and want to take advantage of the remaining month), while others
have lowered them. It's not breaking the rules anyway and I don't think it makes much difference. What will make the difference will be the ban from 1 January.