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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Re: Samourai Wallet seized by the feds
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 21/08/2024, 16:06:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,apogio (1)
This post will probably be ignored, but I noticed there's an address with over $1.7M in here dedicated to fund projects which aim to improve transaction privacy in Bitcoin. Currently, the only solutions for L1 privacy are Wasabi, Joinmarket and Joinstr, with the first one having a terrible reputation as a project, the second being expensive and difficult to use properly, and the third being relatively untested (i.e., having no Sybil resistance).

In my opinion, Samourai was the best alternative, and its development was very active just a few weeks before it was shut down. It's truly disheartening to see Bitcoin turning into a surveillance coin due to the lack of adequate solutions. I'm reaching out to @gmaxwell, @theymos, and @Pieter Wuille, asking them to help with Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the two founders of Samourai Wallet, in legal expenses in court: https://p2prights.org/donate.html.