Even with all the FUD noise and BTC price rising, HoneyPony still holding on to $20 (maybe just barely, LOL)

That says to me, hopefully "No Such Thing As Bad Publicity"

Maybe after the smoke clears all this 'negative attention' on Monero will just lead to more people investigating it more carefully, and hopefully realizing that -- at the very least -- even IF the shit claimed about linking transactions in the FUD were true (which it prob is not) THEN anyway Monero is STILL more private than anything else currently available that's actually practical to *use*, in actual for-real transactions.

OTOH, yeah it's frustrating anyway.

Seriously I don't get it why Monero seems to get so much negging by the media and etc, compared to how much other coins much closer to clear scams (*cough* Dash *cough* ZCash *cough*) are given a clear benefit of the doubt (totally undeserved)...