Pump to end soon.
Sale while you can.
We are going down now but will stabilise on a higher level than before.

I've no idea what is going on here.

Pls stop watching all that anti iranian US war propaganda and get a grip.  The idea that Iran has anything to do with this is ludicrous on so many levels. Iran doesnt need to hijack an airliner to get their hands on one, they already have plenty of airbusses and boeings. Not that they would need an airliner to deliver a weapon, they have quite capable missiles. Iran would have no interest whatsoever in some terrorist attack; Iran if anything, is an important enemy of islamic (almost exclusively Sunni) terrorism. Iran does support groups that the US calls terrorists, but thats because these groups fight against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. Do consider that these same groups, like Hezbollah also fight Al qaeda, in places like Syria, but when Al Qaeda fights a regime the US doesnt like, they just call them rebels or freedom fighters, rather than terrorists or muslim extremists. The nations that actually control, fund and arm these sunni terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda,  are your so called allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, not Iran.

Getting off topic, so lastly,  why on earth would Iran hijack a plane full of Chinese, when China is one of their few remaining trade partners?

you need an emergency injection of andreas antonopoulos. it may not be bitcoin specifically where all of the big money will be made but you have absolutely not missed the crypto (in general) rocketship. this thing is just getting started. wait until other forms of finance besides only money move onto the block chain. wait until finaincal securities move onto the block chain. wait until people blockchain crowed funding over takes kickstarter. wait until people start bootstrapping corporations. wait until we have self executing 0 counter-party risk derivatives contracts on the blockchain. jesus wait until distributed autonomous corporations.

you havn't seen anything yet.

Not sure if you're aware of what you're stating, but late majority would actually mean that Bitcoin almost reached its maximum user base, which I really don't think is the case.

Well, if you'd popped back to 2011 and told everyone what was transpiring a piffling 2-2.5 years from then - VCs, hedge funds, professional investors, thousands of merchants, governments sitting up and taking notice, exchanges on the horizon which might actually not steal your money - people would think you were utterly deranged.

The combo of all that weight, all the beatings Bitcoin has taken and it's still growing and yet only a few tens or hundreds of thousands own a complete coin makes right now a pretty miraculous time to buy in.

I presumed it would be a multi-year deal. That's fine with me. There'll be many, many more lulls, scares and explosions. In 2016 you'll be a veteran who's seen it all and thrived.

You appear to be a bit dispirited today. 2009-2012 types are sub micro stealth adopters.

I've no idea about orders of magnitude higher, but when one ATM machine arriving in an entire country still gets people excited I think we can assume it's still unbelievably early days.

There's a universe of difference between a regular person hearing the word Bitcoin, then actually vaguely figuring out what it is, then deciding it's worth taking the plunge, then creating a wallet and buying some or being paid some. That might be a process of several years for most.

I'll state it again - if you're posting on here you're so attuned to Bitcoin that it's very hard to conceive of what the non-infected world makes of it. It's still a drip in a swirling ocean.