I think this kind of regrouping and settling is really good to see. Nothing is a constant upward march every day of the year. More stability breeds more confidence, which brings more merchants, which breeds more confidence.
Looks like confirmation bias to me. Nothing personal (actually, the fact that the post is from you makes me give it more credit), but I've seen the damages of confirmation bias before. Once bitten, twice shy, as they say.
It's quite surprising that the price didn't take a much larger hit on the order of 50-70% given what happened today. Not that it matters if you're holding for the long term and believe in the basic principles behind the coin. But I think 1-2 days of relative price stability is a fantastically good signal from the market, not the other way around.
I'll take you word. I am not convinced but you seem to have a much better understanding of markets than me, so I will follow you despite my concern over possible confirmation bias.
I am by no means saying that BC's continued survival and stability through this is
proof of anything -- or that anything is going to happen in the future. And I wouldn't encourage anyone to follow my investments (or follow anyone's!) but to do their own research and come to their own conclusions. I'm obviously fairly bullish on BC which is why I brought the casino into it. But we have weathered several Bitcoin force-5 hurricanes over the years without losing a significant amount at the worst of times
and also without becoming fabulously rich off the rise in the currency. I've always maintained that the "intrinsic" value of Bitcoin and other virtual coins is proportional to their utility as a unit of trade that cuts out the inefficiencies of merchant and banking fees -- which in theory should be at least 5% of the global economy. But the middlemen who charge those fees take on risk and create stability that the consumer or individual merchant isn't always willing or able to shoulder.
So far from saying that this two-day lull means BC's going to go up in value, what I'm saying is that it's a positive sign to see it stay where it is for awhile. Because that makes it easier for other people to adopt. The people who buy it looking for a quick return are not the people you want in it if you want to see it go to 100 times its current value... it will only do that if it attracts people who trust it, and these kinds of retrenchments build new floors of trust with the people you need to put serious attention into it.
tl;dr, I'm not saying buy buy buy, this is proof of anything, or reconfirming my own beliefs. Just that I'm pleased with what I've seen today.