Of course, the VCs tell their buddies like all other pumpers. They like to shill their bags like everybody else. They like to have control over a project (like every other VC) instead of a community lead project.

While we talk about a great number of projects everyday, the shillers never mention Monero and if they do it's never in a good light. That's intellect dishonest and you are a rare exception.

If you think transaction data is organic you fell for the believable shill.

It's extremely easy to fake and extremely hard to produce in a real setup.

The best stats we have are from merchants and services that publish their BTC, XMR and ZEC stats.

Personally I am not just seeking a private way to pay. For that I would use Zcash under certain conditions just like I use BTC.

The value in any money that wants to compete with fiat is in the community. Monero people will tell you to look at long-term averages over short term price fluctuation.

Wake me up when VC buy real products and produce real organic demand with it.

I bet you they prefer the convenience of their credit card.