I honestly thought for a coin like Verge, the news couldn’t have been bigger, looks like it will do exit from here.. monero will be best privacy coin

I would say opposite - the price doesn't reflect developments. But one of the edge  of Monero  is the vast  listing on  exchanges. This makes buying and selling it with fiat in most places effortless  compared to  other  anonymous  cryptocurrencies. Therefore I think XMR has every chance to be number one anonymous  coin and  we can sit back and hope.

That 'unknown' hash sure is creeping up! 26% of total hash-rate or 133 mh/s..

Do I smell an ASIC?  

Can this be a large private farm? It's bigger than nanopool with 90000 users mining XMR!

Why not? Personally, internal developments are among the most important factors to support price of coins beside whales' manipulations.

This fact might lead to hard challenge for whales to really be able to control the price movements of Monero.

I'm mining at Nanopool xmr
They have commision 0.015Xmr every payout
Could you suggest me other pool without this fee ?

The unknown hashrate is almost certainly botnets.

Truth to be told the others are snapping at Monero heels. Who is the winner of this battle? Who knows. I am holding a couple of them including XMR. So far so good.

I like Byteball, I think it's cool and the dev seems like a guy who knows what he is doing, however it is not an anonymous, fungible or private or even decentralized at this point.

wow, 0.015.... our highest TX fee on supportxmr is 0.005 for 0.1 XMR threshold payouts, going linearly down to 0 for 4 XMR payouts and above.