Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 04:06:08 PM

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 noticed that Wasabi and Joinmarket were funded with 10 BTC each, so 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. Any amounts donated would be appreciated.

Quote from: https://p2prights.org/projects.html

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, founders of Samourai Wallet, face charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money services business. The prosecution's attempt to classify Samurai's non-custodial coinjoin tool as a money service business risks setting a damaging precedent that could impact the entire Bitcoin ecosystem.

By supporting this case, we can ensure that the court adequately understands the technology and legal principles at stake in this case, and seek a favorable result establishing that non-custodial privacy tools cannot be regulated under the Bank Secrecy Act. The outcome of this case will significantly impact the future of non-custodial Bitcoin tools and the broader decentralized finance landscape.

You have this completely backwards - Samourai is the one with terrible reputation as a project, not Wasabi:

Quote from: gmaxwell on May 19, 2019, 07:49:31 PM

Repeated dishonesty from Samourai have barred them from ever receiving a payout from the bounty as far as I am concerned: I will not be signing a transaction paying them. Evaluating the privacy of systems is difficult even when the involved parties are honest and easy to work with, it is far too difficult when they are actively misleading. Personally, I would urge my friends to not use that wallet.