That may be the reason for the spike of price of bitcoin when it was down like around 6,000$ to 11,000$. We just need events/news like this to boost bitcoin's reputation that will attract more investors.
Well I believe, with every dip and pump bitcoins are becoming popular. In the earlier times, yes the dip was considered as bad times and people started panicking and then selling at bad prices. And the dilemma was people never buy bitcoins in dip too because they usually thought may these prices never come back. But slowly and gradually now, this trend have come to end. Now, people are most awaiting for the dip to buy and pump to sell.