I am more interested in actual usage / transaction statistics - does anyone have any numbers, or better yet, how is xmr adoption in the dark/grey areas of the interwebs coming along?
There's this from Monero.How

That is impressive. I haven't looked at that stat for a while. Outpacing bitcoin in price growth
and usage makes it a little harder to ignore

I think the mobile apps have really upped the rate of usage, being so much easier.