Could anyone explain why Monero isn't more popular than Bitcoin? On the surface it seems to do everything Bitcoin can but adds privacy as a bonus, so why doesn't everyone use it?
If a bad actor could crack Monero, do they stand to earn much more than $625k? If so, what would be their incentive to tell the IRS and accept the $625k? I see none. So that statement doesn't tell us anything about the strength of Monero.
Well as far as we know, no one succeeded ;) if I was the IRS, the last thing I would do is tell everyone we could now deanonymize Monero.<p>(I'm mostly kidding, I don't think anyone can deanonymize Monero)