Market Cap is doubled recently - probably accounts for the hash increase.
Also they have a daemon specially geared towards RPC transactions (In fact it's called the RPC wallet) and are targeting online/POS transactions with this.
https://bytecoin.org/news/bytecoin-2.0.0-major-update-beta/It's easy to get a few thousand using a modest CPU on Minergate. Minergate makes it
too easy to mine a few coins on a system that is either redundant or just used for low intensive stuff like bind or squid.
https://minergate.com/pool-stats/bcn