There is a widespread frustration within the Bitcoin privacy space. Developments and developers in this area are sparse.

The Samurai cult has deterred potential Bitcoin privacy developers with their unfathomable aggression towards them and their tendency to spread negativity. Consider, for example, the uproar when Blockstream advertised its privacy achievements with Confidential Transactions on Liquid or PayJoins in Green, or during every single one of Wasabi's achievements, most recently on BTCPay and Trezor integrations. Even those who dare to discuss the privacy breakthroughs of the Lightning Network face harassment. This phenomenon is so well-recognized that some even suspect the team behind it is part of a government operation.

Seasoned privacy advocates like Peter Todd, who coined the term "coinjoin", Greg Maxwell, the inventor of coinjoin, myself, who created the type of coinjoin they're currently using, and Chris Belcher, who invented the only other type of coinjoin (excluding the new Wasabi 2.0 coinjoins), all view them as a malicious joke. They cannot be compared to Wasabi or JoinMarket because they are a trusted third party.

On the topic of doxxing, the interview was not the first time the Samurais revealed their identities. It's not as though I disclosed something that I learned in secret. I merely pointed to a public resource to establish a connection between one of their sockpuppets and them: the company registry where they exposed their identities.

They believe that if they yell "doxxing" loudly enough, it will somehow become true, but it doesn't.

The Samurais have abandoned their pseudonyms multiple times, not only during the interview and in the company registry, where they disclosed their identities. They just had a change of heart when people started to link their past scams to their current scams, like when they worked at blockchain.info and botched the wallet's random generation - they were seeding user wallets from random.org - causing many users to lose money: https://nopara73.medium.com/samouraileaks-part-3-is-random-org-random-enough-35704796ae93

These malicious actors are present and will remain so until they pull an exit scam or Bitcoin users discover the deserted state of their git repositories, wise up, and slowly but inevitably fade into irrelevance.

Bitcoin privacy is bleeding from the inside just as much as from the outside, but all hope is not yet lost. At Wasabi Wallet, we won't rush head first into the wall. We will do everything possible to build a sovereign money management freedom software stack. Feel free to hurl old and new scamurai propaganda at us; we'll continue writing code.