Samourai Wallet: A New Threshold in U.S. FinCrime Enforcement
The case revolves around Samourai Wallet’s privacy-focused features—Whirlpool (a Bitcoin mixing service) and Ricochet (an extra-hop obfuscation tool)—which U.S. authorities say were intentionally designed to facilitate illicit fund movement, including flows tied to darknet markets, hacks, and crypto-fraud schemes.