In a way price is directly correlated with bitcoin's success. If you want any kind of mass adoption and stability... the price will need to be much higher than it is now. When the # of bitcoin users goes from 5 million to 100 million and more, the price will be much higher and there will be less people who will have a chance of owning 1 whole bitcoin.
So when people say "lol price doesn't matter, I can still buy my coffee with bitcoin regardless of price" I cringe.
Well 2014 wasn't the year of Bitcoin (to the moon spike), that much is clear.
It was a year though price negative, where some good strides were made. Paypal, Dell, Overstock, United Way, Wikipedia all good news stories and steps in the right direction.
Year 5 only for BTC, so understandably some growing pains with regards to Gox/Karpeles, Shrem, Ulbricht, Newsweek/Dorian.
It's definitely going to take some time for this technology, but hopefully Year 6 is much better price wise for the HODLERs out there.
Still.... the negative news this year greatly outweighed the positives. The negatives were much louder and much more prevalent than relief over a couple of merchant adoption news here and there is not enough.
Merchant adoption is good and all... but I see this as something that will/should keep happening, hopefully at an accelerated rate as more infrastructure develops and as bitcoin becomes more popular. But it's not something to dance in the rain over... Dell and Newegg were good news and a step in the right direction for sure, Wikipedia just accepts it for donations and they hide it (so who cares)... but Netflix, Walmat, Target, Starbucks, Amazon would be even bigger than any of these.
