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[nextstep]

Monero. The darknet markets are starting to accept this as a form of payment.

[trendia → nextstep]

Most of the volume on exchanges seems to be Bitcoin <--> Monero. According to 24 hour volume rankings [1], volume is:

1. XMR / BTC .. $11,500,000

2. XMR / USD .. $ 65,000

[1] http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/volume/24-hour/

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That tells more like that speculators are flocking to it... There is always some altcoin that is currently speculators favourite.

To measure actual usage, one could watch how many transactions are done per hour or something like that: http://moneroblocks.info/