I'm not sure. NIST is already on thin ice so they wouldn't just burn the backdoor, this would probably be the last thing anyone trusts from them. Typically these intelligence agencies don't blow stuff like this on money since the federal government can just issue more treasury securities if they're short on that. Finally if bitcoin wallets are broadly compromised there's little value in "holding" it as you can't prove you're the only person able to spend it.
TDS is a very credible scenario - it affects many people.
You think that they:
1) have an ECDSA backdoor
2) are going to burn it on this
I'm not sure. NIST is already on thin ice so they wouldn't just burn the backdoor, this would probably be the last thing anyone trusts from them. Typically these intelligence agencies don't blow stuff like this on money since the federal government can just issue more treasury securities if they're short on that. Finally if bitcoin wallets are broadly compromised there's little value in "holding" it as you can't prove you're the only person able to spend it.
I'm very doubtful.