I still think Bitcoin will soar in the next worlwide crisis that many predict is not so far away, so you may be onto something. However too much negative image about Bitcoin has been generated, for the mainstream Bitcoin is definitely a bad word and I feel that could be the end of it eventually. And even if Bitcoin itself it's not bad, there have been hundreds of heist, hacks, scams, exchanges disappearing, ilegal business, the Silk Road fiasco, etc that one sort of understand how someone who doesn't know much about Bitcoin could have a negative image of it.
I think Bitcoin has the highest chance of being a performing asset in a financial collapse due to it not having any group or person protecting it or giving it value. It is a decently valued and fairly easily transact-able form of currency, and thus people will look at it as a potential way to retain their wealth.
I do agree that there is a fair amount of negative news that Bitcoin has to deal with, but I think that ordinary people will ignore most of it if it is necessary to preserve their wealth, or the smart ones at least. They can look at the charts and determine what they want to do themselves.
