Douglas Tuman @DouglasTuman We always knew the State would use the full force of the law to battle crypto privacy. Transparent Bitcoin is not the threat. Crypto transactions that they can not track and trace is what they fear. That is why it is essential for privacy/fungibility to be baked-in to the base layer of the world’s digital cash protocol and for the system running it to be decentralized and self perpetuating. No servers being hosted by some company somewhere assisting in obscuring transaction histories. This isn’t a “we told you so”. We are on the same team and as much as I find @SamouraiDev insufferable as a person, he should not be considered a criminal for building tech and running a co that provides bitcoiner’s financial privacy tools. But it’s never been about pleading to governments to respect our natural rights, it’s about creating a system that enshrines our right to transact freely, without censorship or surveillance, in unstoppable code. I wish the @SamouraiWallet team well and will support and encourage the “privacy coin” community to support you in your legal battle. We can not let them gain another inch. But now is the time to realize the only way we achieve what Satoshi invented the first iteration of — a peer to peer digital cash system — is to evolve and adopt a version of his proposed system that is private by default on the base layer! All transactions everywhere will soon be digital and the only way we can maintain our liberty and individuality in the digital age is to adopt a digital cash protocol like Monero.