Opera has introduced the first crypto mining blocker built into the browser. This gives me more confidence about Monero moving forward as these botnets see some "costs" to doing business. Eventually ordinary miners will have a shot as all browsers implement these methods. If anything Monero has helped the overall network improve its security with the most egregious being Tesla's servers left unprotected without a password.
The hard fork to MoneroV also has brought in a lot more volume, maybe 3-5X more and so I'm looking at Monero again as a good long-term privacy coin. The hardfork to MoneroV has been pushed off to April 30th, which means we could see some good correlated price action if BTC continues to dip.
XMR has really held up with the dramatic fall in BTC and I wouldn't attribute this to growth necessarily because the hard fork talk has probably created more speculative interest in XMR over the last week or so and kept prices higher than what might be "fair". This influx of speculators could lead to a bigger dip relative to BTC going forward.
We can see the positive uptrend goes back to at least January (I think this is a Kraken XMRUSD chart and it doesn't show anything prior to January) 2017.
Given these price levels a reasonable target for entry might be in the $150 to $240 range. $230-$240 could be strong support, so some additional factors will need to be taken into account as the price action unfolds.