OK, I believe this proves that the Samourai developers are NOT working for state actors, and the project itself is NOT a honeypot collecting information for intelligence agencies. This is a very sad day for Bitcoin privacy advocates. Kruw, some of your fellow developers were arrested, move on for today. Debate again tomorrow.
As for the honeypot, we're yet to find out what information they get from there, how well the servers were protected and so on. I'm not an expert here, but I've read that they had their own nodes and most of their users did not use them.
As for the US government, It's a great example of double standards where a person can kill another person and get 10 years, while these guys are facing 20 (correct me if I'm wrong) for running a privacy oriented software! That's insane.
At the same time Jamie Dimon's bank was
FINED for money laundering. Why aren't these devs let go with a fine? Because the government rules with fear and likes to make examples of people to scare the rest.