Especially when the CIA (allegedly) still has a bounty out (unfulfilled) for anyone who can crack the encryption of monero. This move tells me they don't want regular people with it... And that kinda makes me want it.
Exactly.
The heavy-handed intervention we just saw here today is the best proof yet that the censorship-surveillance complex is completely unable to trace Monero transactions. If any of the silly rumors about "cracking Monero" were true, this wouldn't have happened.
Antifragile.