As I saw people openly admitting they were dropping their life saving into Bitcoin my stomach dropped. Kindly and sincerely sir I am a poor student and can't help these people, but I guess the same could be said of yourself, these forums over the last year have been a pirranah pit of "it will hit $100 in no time", "sell, sell, sell,", "buy NOW!", "oh it goes up and down all the time" ... but I see very few, if anyone actually wanting to drive Bitcoin from commodity to currency, because, c'mon don't kid yourselves, commodity is numbers for numbers, curency is goods/services for numbers. Ask yourself, when did you stop looking at MtGox or bitcoinwatch.com and at the trader page to REALLY see where Bitcoin was heading.

I am seriously disgusted with anyone that thought the price was just going to go up and up. I believe in Bitcoin but what I've seen in recent weeks is selfishness on a level I didn't expect. I saw the price soar from 10.00 to 30.00 within a week and regretted every dollar it gained because I knew that when I glanced at this page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade almost no businesses had been added. Are you fucking serious? Bitcoin's STABILITY is built on enterprise, NOT popularity, forget miners, they are a CONSTANT. Why people compare miners and price, or price and difficulty is anyone's guess. Popularity is the bane of the free market and everyone jumped for it, hook, line, and sinker. The only thing that matters is economy growth, y'know business, people trading, mom and pop stores, niche markets, fuck, even newspaper sellers, if there is no adoption of Bitcoin as a trusted currency by those businesses that are willing to give it a shot. Bitcoin. Is. Dead. Speculators need to grow up. Enthusiasts need to grow up.

I think you all need to take a good hard look at yourselves and ask yourself, what does Bitcoin mean to me.