doesn't anyone else see the similarities?
The important part is post-bubble. There's no reason to think that it will behave the same as in 2011.
There is no bad news this time to crush confidence. Actually, good news is still coming in just as it did on the way up. New merchants accepting every day. New exchanges and projects being worked on. Plenty of media coverage and people coming in.
no bad news?
what are you talking about?
btc24 is history along with +5M $
bitfloor stoped trading (AML reasons probably too)
it just hasn't made it to the news yet
Well, news of that scale was happening on the way up too. The chain fork, instawallet and bitcoin-central, bitinstant, etc..
None of it really compares to MtGox getting hacked in 2011.
I think the good news has by far outweighed the bad. But that's just my opinion.