What a complete load of shit. Several times you mention threatening the government, yet Samourai Wallet paid for attorneys to draft a response to proposed FinCEN rule changes and got some 20 or 30 industry participants to cosign the message since the rule change effected everyone. WTF threats are you talking about?
Not capable of encouraging development? Samourai Wallet gave $50k to the Tor project and they had over 20 contributors to their own software.
Their approach was unsound? Show me any ZeroLink CoinJoin implementation other than Whirlpool, I'll wait. Pushed people away? There was over 10k BTC in unspent Whirlpool capacity at the time of the arrests and that trend was going up and to the right.
You make it sound as though Samourai Wallet was unapproachable and "hated on plebs" which is total bullshit. If anyone approached them with a cocky sarcastic attitude then they received attitude right back. Anyone who approached them willing to learn and not be a dick was treated with mutual respect. People got out of Samourai Wallet's attitude what they put in.
Toxcic towards devs taking a different approach? Samourai poured significant resources into research and demonstrated technical flaws only to be met with aggression and doxing from other developers.
If you don't like the way they communicated then that's fine but don't act like that somehow justifies 5-years in prison. People like you who are cheer leading for the state to lock people in cages because they said something you don't like make me sick.
