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.
Why do you think it's too early to say "I told you so"? Samourai deliberately designed their wallet to collect user data by default and lied about it:
https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1576923638846005248I opened an issue to have a warning displayed to users about the data they are leaking, Samourai closed it and later deleted it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230417145554/https://code.samourai.io/wallet/samourai-wallet-android/-/issues/458I've spent an enormous amount of time warning people about the risks involved with this exact outcome. Now whatever data Samourai had is within arms reach of the Feds.
I'm not stopping you from having an opinion, or am I calling for you to stop posting what you believe is right and what you believe is the truth. I merely letting you understand that real people were arrested. They have families, and they don't want to be in their current situation. I'm also asking you to PLEASE, keep quiet about Samourai for just a few days.
You may currently be annoyed by what I said, but I would tell other people to stop attacking Wasabi too if there were arrests made to their developers.
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