This is something that bears watching, IMO:
http ://redditmetrics.com/r/Monero
Out of 1.2 million /r/, Monero is:
No. 104 Fastest growing yesterday
No. 117 Fastest growing last 7 days
No. 201 Fastest growing last 30 days
No. 427 Fastest growing last 90 days
Over 1000 new subscribers per day, and accelerating. Sure, all of crypto is expanding, but to me this indicates that Monero is receiving its share of attention, and more. Ranked near top 0.1% (for # subscribers on that site) and exploding upward. This is visibility, adoption, exposure, whatever you want to call it. Here it comes.
Wow that is some amazing growth. Do you think word count for XMR on r/darknetmarkets has grown significantly since this tweet?
https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/871186071358328832Number of Monero redditors went up by x4 in that time while Bitcoin redditors only doubled. Bitcoin is for sure losing its dominantions on darkmarkets. Reason for that beside that is not anonymous is also that have at some points huge fees.
I monitor only their reddits and see there is way more talk about Monero then was before. ZCash is rarely if ever mention. There is more talk about Ethereum or BCash then ZCash.