"assured us" = trust me bro. it seems to me that the reality is that most convenience services bitcoiners use come with a risk of privacy leakage (unless you can prove that they can't leak anything) -- and you're safer if you act like they are giving it all to chainanalysis.
Our lawyers assured us that we will be destroyed beyond repair if we ever say anything negative about this competitor again, and then they sent us a 5 BTC bill for that email.
This feels like a very dissatisfactory ending to this chapter:
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"assured us" = trust me bro. it seems to me that the reality is that most convenience services bitcoiners use come with a risk of privacy leakage (unless you can prove that they can't leak anything) -- and you're safer if you act like they are giving it all to chainanalysis.