Clearly MS should just release some statistics on the matter and shut people up but it probably is somewhat higher then normal and don't want to open themselves up to lawsuit... but 54%? Thats laughably unreliable. MS would have fixed the issue after release with that kind of major problem simply because it would have cost them more money to keep the cycle of repair going.

While I can understand what you mean, it seemed to me that this transaction-cloud or whatever, could be used to hold your money like a bank (presumably in an anonymous way) so that you could get to your money w/o the government being able to track it... After all that is really how the IRS knows about your money - because banks are required to report on you, and so are your employers.

I do agree with you though in its unlikeliness.