Seeing Litecoin there in 3rd place really is an unexpected surprise but in the end it is being used because it serves a purpose for the end user. What is interesting are the statistics surrounding XMR, it is still reigning supreme head and shoulders above second placed Bitcoin. With regulated exchanges being pressured to drop Monero, I did not expect to see it holding that much percentage.
Uh, Litecoin is third with 16%, I didn't expect an altcoin dinosaur to still enjoy so much trust. I assume that due to the low fee, it is ideal for withdrawing assets from large exchanges, and then immediately converting them to BTC or XMR.
I think one of the reasons XMR usage is so high is, because the Monero community was the first one we promoted the service to.
Then again, we've been trying to reach LN users more in the recent months. A year ago we started an
LN node, we've sent many keysend messages to all LN users (basically text ads straight to their wallet) and since August we're selling LN channels on
Amboss.space as well as OTC for people that need channels larger than 0.1 BTC. Despite this effort LN accounts for <0.5% of our search volume.
Is the team you're talking about the one behind Infinity exchanger?
I don't believe the team that attacked us is related to Infinity. It's a different team that has also attacked many non-crypto websites.