Their methods were always scummy. For example charging "linking fees" for PayNym that were presented like they were an on-chain fee, but actually were developer fees, Ricochet (which was basically paying yourself) for an absurd fee, etc.
Their coordinator source code was a half-broken pile of scraps, and I had several suspicions there was ways for the coordinator to link the mixing UTXOs due to *implementation* flaws rather than the crypto. (great CTF example: https://mystiz.hk/posts/2024/2024-06-24-google-ctf-1/)
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well, I'm not sure we should expect people who are accessories to money laundering to be moral paragons. I agree with your assessment, but I don’t know if Sterlingov is any better on that front. All of them were alleged to have extracted significant value from the obfuscation of the source and/or destination of funds. Samourai is absolutely scoundrels, and Sterlingov might be too! I care only for the advance of the jurisprudence to defend people’s rights. Sterlingov is appealing. His is the case that will decide the law. If Samourai had gone to trial and appealed, I would be cheerleading for them, even though they were scumbags.
Decentralization is like a carnivore diet, transparent and honest, no hidden fees or scrap.