Most people in the groups you mention are not known to be early adopters of anything. SQRL is still early days and is not rolling its own encryption its just a

Most people in the groups you mention are not known to be early adopters of anything. SQRL is still early days and is not rolling its own encryption its just a novel implementation of and existing one EdDSA. One notable innovative payment network uses the same encryption standard is Bitcoin and to my knowledge has never been successfully compromised. The reason there are so many different payment systems out there is because they all make money from the first day even the crappy ones which most are.