Look at around you, and not the chart.
Are you seeing more and more bitcoin services and companies popping up everyday ? or is it shrinking ?
Look at who is working on Bitcoin now, this is the greatest indicator of tomorrow's adoption.
This is legit. What matters at the end of the day is
merchant consumer adoption. All markets are rigged, no exception. Whales manipulate it to get cheap coins, and pump it to sell more expensive coins. Price volatility is irrelegant. On a log scale, BTC only went up so went the % of adoption.
FIFY
More merchants accepting bitcoin will not do anything except make it easier to spend bitcoin that holders of bitcon already have. Consumer adoption on the other hand will increase overall demand for bitcoin as they will need to buy it in order to use/spend it.