This thread was started in Jan, so you have to look at this in context to what happened during that time...
Most price watchers and day traders / speculators just got off a huge bubble and a major drop in the price, so people was negative and most of them paniced. {Mid Jan, the price dropped to $177/
BTC}
A year before that, the price was +$ 900 --> So naturally people compared prices.
The forum and general outcry, was that Bitcoin was dead or duying... BUT here we are still going strong.
![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
....Since then, the price volatility has calmed down and stabalized.
We are also in a better place, with +/- 160 000 merchants accepting Bitcoins and some major companies using Bitcoin.
Stop watching the price... you will go crazy.
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