⛔️ Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested by DOJ for 'Money-Laundering'

In another perversion of justice, the Department of Justice has indicted the founders of Samourai Wallet, the premier Bitcoin wallet with featues that improved the privacy of BTC transactions.

DOJ alleges that Samourai facilitated more than $100M of money laundering transactions. Samourai's domains have been seized, their apps will be taken down from the Play Store, and the founders Rodriguez and Hill have been arrested, one in New York, and the other extradited from Portgual.

They also allege that the founders knowingly facilitated money laundering. They use off-hand Twitter posts of Samourai welcoming Russian oligarchs and private Twitter DMs of Samourai focusing on black/grey economies, as well as marketing materials for investment pitches that mentioned 'Dark/Grey' market participants.

The takedown of Samourai is a troubling note as we observe international pressure to take down privacy tools that interact in any way with the dark net, even if the extent of interaction cannot be proven.

Some users speculate that the founders knew the takedown was coming, a big reason for the push towards decentralized coordination

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/whirlpool-dencetralization-stage-1/ of Whirlpool transactions which would allow Whirpool transactions even if the main coordinator servers went down.