Monero is one of the leading privacy cryptocurrency but i prefer zcash over it on the market but you really believe those currencies will escape from the regulation and AML i mean anti-money laundering?
It is a really interesting situation on what the regulators will think about privacy coins and how they are going to deal with them in the future, will they force the exchange to remove the coin from trading in public platforms, it is a question for the future on how the market deals with those obstacles. Monero is the most used coin in darknet as far as i know.
Have you seen the latest news? that has explained that the bitcoin gets a lot of growth on its dark net transaction and why they don't use monero to keep the anonymous instead of use bitcoin to create a payment in the dark web? Can you explain?
I am not sure which news you are following and which site is accepting bitcoin as a mode of payment in dark net, it is just old news resurfacing again and the truth is far from that. Majority of the dark net sites only accepts monero and nothing else, when there are a few privacy coins who in the right sense will use bitcoin when they are dealing in the dark web as the sole purpose is privacy.
