the idea that a large number of monero, and tor relay nodes are not long ago being run by spooks is absurd, considering the events that happened involving the FBI's "investigation" of silk road
that attack was viable then for bitcoin, and now is not
but it's perfectly viable on monero right now
so, metadata attacks on monero are definitely in play, and you are an idiot if you don't realise this, or that those who are saying it's better than bitcoin
bitcoin has over 20000 nodes now, and i run one, that's one less node i know for sure is not funded by the CIA or NSA
are you running a #monero node? if not, why not? it's not as expensive hardware requirement