Most price watchers and day traders / speculators just got off a huge bubble and a major drop in the price, so people was negative and most of them paniced. {Mid Jan, the price dropped to $177/BTC}
A year before that, the price was +$ 900 --> So naturally people compared prices.
The forum and general outcry, was that Bitcoin was dead or duying... BUT here we are still going strong.
....Since then, the price volatility has calmed down and stabalized. We are also in a better place, with +/- 160 000 merchants accepting Bitcoins and some major companies using Bitcoin.
Stop watching the price... you will go crazy.
