The irony is exchange delistings made it stronger, it's tx count is growing while btc's is decreasing, closing the gap everyday, it has been appreciating versus BTC for the past few months

It seems Monero people have the complete ability to understand the social aspects of money as a technology and it's privacy guarantees plus wide adoption across dark web markets and other clearnet sources has made it grow consistently even without the help of 1) corporations 2) exchanges or 3) governments, and this trend will only continue due to the SOCIAL aspect.