True, but it'll probably see an explosive growth again at some point I reckon so a lot of people will surely miss out to make some money on it again.
yep, for instance when the winklevoss thing opens. the middlemen will be buying blocks of 10k coins = price rise
then as they divvy out "winkle shares" to the main FIAT investment companies. those companies will themselves start to buy their own coins aswell as having the winkle share holdings.
so there will be a big spike.
investments and using bitcoins as a reserve currency will expand bitcoin faster than most of these armchair activists in the community trying to get their local grocery store and 5 of their friends to accept bitcoin