No. Monero has not come under anything even close to the level of attack that bitcoin has been encountering for the last decade.
Psyops to split the community like XT and ABC, VC/State backed funding deployed to take over development, Wall Street paper, regulation of large miners, etc etc.
No one is threatened enough by Monero to spend that kind of money and political capital to attack it. It's receiving the same amount of attention as something like tornado cash.
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Bitcoin underwent institutional capture because the devs some were publicly known, and because the regulators found mechanism to capture Bitcoin due to its transparency.
The attack vectors for Bitcoin, and Monero are different.
Bitcoin is crushed by compliance, Monero is being fought against with by making unclear regulations, which makes compliant people afraid to use it.
Monero will grow to Bitcoin’s size, and trust me they will do everything in their power to stop us.
My point is that Monero is playing junior softball, bitcoin is major league.
If monero was playing major league right now then the State would just mine empty blocks and make it unusable, or do a massive reorg so that poeple can't trust transactions that are less than a year old or whatever (there's fuck all hashpower compared to bitcoin).
It was attacked from inside and pretty well sold out to tradFi. And that is very much on a lot of the bitcoin maximalists.
It's been constantly under attack since like 2011. Nothing new about that.
It's adversarial for a reason.
