You seem to believe that if a tool is illegal, as long as it's open source and the people making it don't have a criminal background, and as long as you call it something like "privacy software," somehow it's suddenly not illegal

But this is a tool whose specific purpose it is to make it difficult to track illegal transactions. Of course this is happening.

Programmers get way too wrapped up in "but I called it open source! I called it privacy software!"

What you label it has no actual power here. It was used in illegal behavior and that appears to be its goal.

Of course it's going away.