It was a tiny phrase which give meaning to everything happen withe price of bitcoin these days and don't justify the title of the article:
Still, O'Connor said volume from the Chinese bitcoin market has been "off the charts," so there may be a genuine upswing in interest from that region.What want more the author of article to find the why of the increase?
As for them who tell that the price of bitcoin don't have importance because important it's the technology behind it it's a stupidity. Bitcoin and peer to peer are indivisible. Bitcoin is the first materialized product of peer to peer. As such have big importance. First of all an historical one. To not talk about its qualities as a currency. So, I think, that bitcoin has the same importance of peer to peer and its price is a sign that this firs product of this technology have future or not.