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Monero because its untraceable(real world industry - underground drug markets)

IRS wants to crack it and awarded $1.25 million contract: https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysis-and-texas-firm-wi...

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This doesn't really shift my priors that the only practical use of crypto is illegal transactions.

El Salvador legalized Bitcoin for use in fee-free cross-border remittances.

Fee free bitcoin transactions? How does that work?

Bank fee free.

So, not fee free?

Do you need to crack it if the government can be a majority hashrate of the miner pool? One need not crack it to control it. You'd be able to double spend, mine empty blocks, orphan blocks from other miners, etc. Just need to get to and sustain 51% of the hash pool, which sounds trivial considering nation state compute resources.

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