Then IRS is doing more than just setting a bad example. They are breaking the law and now, they are trying to cover it up. Someone will find those supposedly "lost emails".
I'm a 47 year old, white male. I was raised on a farm and have been a farmer most of my life and I graduated from high school in the 80's, before the internet. I have no further education than that. I also worked in a large steel mill for a lot of years, and still work in the steel industry today. I own Bitcoins. It's people of my demographic that are going to make or break Bitcoin. Adoption will happen but, it will be very slow unless people can get the message out there more. Most people I know have heard of Bitcoin but, know very little about it, and what they think they know is usually the bad stereotypical stuff.
The reason that it seems like the US has abandoned its space program is not because they actually abandoned it. It's because they now have something better that they want to keep secret.