https://decrypt.co/69318/alleged-operator-of-336-million-bitcoin-mixing-serv... https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-fog-dark-web-cryptocurrency-arrest/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/alleged-bitcoin-mixer-operator-arrested US authorities on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov in Los Angeles, according to court records, and charged him with laundering more than 1.2 million bitcoins -- worth $336 million at the times of the payments -- over the 10 years that he allegedly ran Bitcoin Fog. As with filesharing, these legacies of service fall only to be replaced by many more instances of far more resistant services utilizing all the accumulated knowledge and techniques to date. Privacy is always in demand, thus will always spawn an ever growing variety of services, protocols, and designs to service those entirely valid rights and needs of humanity. While swaps will continue to pop up and operate throughout the forseeable future, crypto privacy protocols are advancing... coin join/shuffle/fusion services and wallets, dark exchanges, DEX, statistical Monero and cryptographic Zcash, plus many newer things in the development pipeline.