All of this should be expected due to the centralized nature of these services and the carlessness with which the people pushing ethereum approach the distribution of their network. Bitcoiners have been warning for years that the tradeoffs made by those huffing mETH would come back to bite them in the ass when the state attacks heat up like they are right now.
While this type of censorship of the centralized services like Alchemy, Infura and USDC is to be expected, it was really shocking to see that GitHub decided to completely delete the accounts of the developers who contributed to Tornado Cash.
This proves that it is important not to rely on centralized third parties to coordinate the construction and distribution of the open source code your project relies on. If the Treasury Department can do this to Tornado Cash they can do it to Samourai Wallet, JoinMarket and even the Bitcoin Core repositories and those who contribute to them. Alternatives to GitHub need to be utilized as quickly as humanly possible.
The war on the common man has escalated significantly this week. Are you ready to peacefully fight back by standing up, declaring "enough is enough", and utilizing the tools that will lead you to freedom?
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Good points by Marty as usual. Although he missed the nuance that Samourai is self-hosted with Gitlab.
Git is already decentralized. Don't recentralize it with Microsoft's GitHub.
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all centralized coordinators including samaouri's can be shut down. joinmarket however cannot be stopped
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This article was re-published in Bitcoin Magazine:
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