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Yeah, back then things were harder for Bitcoin for a lot of reasons. There were few exchanges. Mt. Gox, the most popular at the time, was manipulating the price, according to some people who study the market, until the house of cards collapsed. But luckily things have changed a lot since then.
I think that is the main difference. Back then, there are very few users and exchanges, that makes the market easily manipulated. Right now, the users are diverse and there are different exchanges. SO one exchange manipulating the price does not have that much effect compared before. If ever one gets hacks, the price may drop but we can recover quickly from it. Unlike in 2013, we got stuck in a low price for too long.