Tell me about it.  I sold at 98.99 with a buy order at 97.89.  Looks like I will be taking a loss on that position.

Does the New York Times know something I don't?

Any hard predictions in the "next hour" span are generally pretty bold.  long term trends on bitcoin are pretty easy "it's gonna go up"  midterm ones, well, they can be trickier, short term it is pretty difficult to guage, barring something obvious like giant fake bidwalls.

no clearly it will go up once the market is done catching all these cheap bitcoins the seller is anxiously getting rid of ( who's the sucker selling anyway? )

This whole price drive-down was probably done so that as bank transfers come in from that long Japanese bank holiday they can get cheap coins. I think we're going right back up.

We never were even going to breach $100.

Whooda thunk? 

You could have an alt coin with fast confirmations; making it useful for inperson "immediate" confirmation.