So what you're saying is, the people in charge are really good at privacy? And this is a problem?

/s

Yes because giving your privacy to someone requires trust if you want it to stay privacy.

They should have used the "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich" model like Google.

you compare aggressive teams with literally billions of dollars to an un-ending network activity that generates more costs than new nickels? have you ever been actually poor and yet working every day? stunningly insensitive, not funny

Andrew Lee of Mt Gox fame is your guy. Also claims to be the crown prince of Korea.

What if it is the NSA instead?

He's mentioned in the paste.

They sell privacy but it would have been obvious from the very beginning that they’re going to be a magnet for illegal activity. I would probably do the same thing if I were them.

Sounds like they know how to keep private.

And that’s the problem. How do you know they are not a state actor?

I don't care tbh.

The threat I'm protecting against isn't the state reading my emails, it's Spotify (for example, but there are many, many more) refusing to sign me up because my IP is in a different country to my bank account.

Or every single bloody website on the internet ignoring my browser's preferred language settings and serving me content in the language that they think my IP address comes from.