Samourai Wallet has been taken down by the U.S. authorities: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering. You can verify by opening samouraiwallet.com (it's under the authorities' control).

Another privacy enhancing tool goes down the road. Apparently, the governments use everything in their disposal to undermine the users' privacy. Samourai team had recently announced that they were developing a decentralized version of whirlpool, using the Soroban network. It could be the case that they foresaw their own disappearance.

Very frustrated. An important reminder and good quote is needed here.

R.I.P. Samourai.

History repeating itself is probably inaccurate. You're talking about a cycle repeating here but you're only using 2 past instances -- which is the bare minimum to establish any sort of cyclical pattern.

I've no doubt halving, along with every other aspect of Bitcoin's design -- difficulty adjustment, fixed supply, fee structure, among others -- will all contribute to a gradual increase in valuation. Halving's just part of this scarcity and deflationary model.