The Samourai community was on the verge of a decentralized whirlpool coordinator and bridging monero swaps. Supported by the dojo stack it was the most powerful bitcoin toolset.

A principled self custody and a basechain privacy focused wallet with the functioning ability to swap small whirlpooled uxtos for monero private spends was code so scary it had to be shut down and the developers jailed.

That tech stack stands as the apex.

Respect where respect is due.

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Still hurts to think about and many on the verge of leaving bitcoin because of it.

Can you explain who is on the verge of leaving bitcoin because of this?

It isn't the same without them

Agreed

It was open source, right? Can / will the progress continue?

You need some level of expertise to fork the app, clients and coordinator and then you need balls of steel to actually run the coordinator and likely go to the gulag.

Lol, I'm aware. I was a bit familiar with the Samourai repositories a few years ago, but I hadn't seen any code for the new decentralized coordinator available... Hadn't looked for a while, though.

Can't it be done fully over tor without 'much effort' and therefore remove the need for balls of steel and decrease the likelihood to go to the gullag to an acceptable level?

Then do it. I'm looking forward to it, no joke

I'm the wrong npub for such an endeavor.

My question was about why it has not been done already.

Are the incentives to low or the hurdles to high?

It'll come back, either soft fork or case dismissed, optimism

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