Samourai painted a huge target on their back by collecting users' xpubs: extremely lucrative data for the Feds to seize and of course that's exactly what they did.
samourai was a bad actor in the space attacking everyone criticized their (mostly bad) tools. The wallet gave by default the master pubkey to samourai, giving them the possibility to deanonimize most of the coinjoins (even if you were running your own dojo, if you were in a pool full of samourai users you loose your privacy).
The spending tools was bad, for example ricochet txs payed them a fees on a static hardcoded address every three hops, adding a gigantic fingerprint on user transactions instead of giving anonimity.
Some other aspect of the products were good, but nothing that wasnt possible to do 1000x times better with more advanced tools and just a bit of knowledge.
Their community was composed by dishonests and retards, and they were attacking literally everyone touched their god, including nostr:nprofile1qqsw79gu0guq7s98t473fyavx3akwaafmx6l5z4rehd50lrcl2mf4zcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0r3md60
I still sincerely hope the samourai guys will be free soon, and I think the govermemt is by order of magnitude a worst actor then samourai.
Monero is a shitcoin and tend to zero in value, and has been made pretty outdated by lightning and layer2 solutions combined, I cant think a single use case where I would use monero today.
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