I guess I expected the price to be more volatile. For example, the market for, say, silver is much larger than btc, yet currently it is more volatile. It seems strange to me that such a relatively tiny market can be so stable.
This is a good point, but I think the BTC market is structured far more efficiently. With BTC pretty much everything is a 1:1 correlation, sender to receiver, trader to exchange, etc. A lot of time wasting and bs is cut out (market hours, brokerages etc.). Also many people say the metals markets are manipulated anyway.