I did a little research, because mostly this price surge is argumented with DNM's getting in the currency, which i still do not believe.
On Alphabay in median 1,9% 2737 are accepting XMR in drugs and chemicals from total 136877.
On Oasis in median 6,9% 264 are accepting XMR in drugs and chemicals from total 3813.
The last 0,018 hype on polo had over 100k
BTC volume, with now residing somewhere at 0,014 with ~24k
BTC volume.
So if 3001 vendors are responsible for over 100k
BTC volume, every vendor in median had to have ~33
BTC for playing wiht XMR, now somewhat around ~8
BTC each
if every vendor is actively trading -->
possible but not likely.Why, simply because these 100
BTC to 800
BTC buy walls would to have been built, in median, buy more than one vendor at the same time -->
possible but not likely.
Even if, let's say 10% of the
active vendors are
actively trading with the new XMR (multiply the figures buy 10) which i still do not believe, this would be more unlikely to happen at the same time on the same place. The lending figures intensify my claim and theory of a single entity playing around and making the market to the contrary argument of "natural" growth

Think about it

You are still not getting it (several others have replied as well): we most all agree this is
due to the DNM news.
it has not (yet) seen any "real", "natural" use from that (or at least hadn't when the price started its crazy climb).
The lending figures intensify my claim and theory of a single entity playing around and making the market to the contrary argument of "natural" growth
is still absurd.