MD5 is also cryptography. You wouldn't remember since you seem young, but once upon the time we'd see governments to keep promoting MD5 as a secure encryption mechanism despite all our warnings that it wasn't. We just moved forward to SHA1 and nowadays SHA256. Same thing with bitcoin, just moved forward to Monero already years ago. And yes, I do know a few things about crypto and its roots. Was mining BTC and still with CPU back in 2009. You weren't there at the forums, you weren't there at the BBS. You really miss the point why we pushed for a crypto currency in the true sense of that word rather than settling for an MD5 equivalent fedcoin. If you don't understand the true value of monero today, you wouldn't have bought/mined bitcoin back then as well.