More news that equates Bitcoin's success with its price.
That's misleading.

For a currency that is peer to peer and that is grass root sponsored, I would have to say that it is doing EXTREMELY well.
The sooner this crash finishes and we can reach prices that are sustainable the better.

It goes to show (in my opinion), that the number one weakness of any currency of this nature is big money causing a pump and dump type scenario. We've been pumped and we've been dumped! And the media has helped out big time by giving us a lot of positive coverage on the upside and a lot of negative coverage on the down side. The best we can do is learn from this experience and profit on the next wave (upside and downside) if it happens (second generation of early adopters) which will help such a scenario not to be as severe.

The media will never get behind this in a long term positive way. They have an agenda.
Government, banks, and BIG media are all one big happy marriage and it wants nothing to do with our project of freedom.

Hey, if Bank of America can go from $54 to $3 and still not be done, why can't Bitcoin?

Where can I find out about this?  Haven't seen anything really earth-shattering in the bitcoin development mailing list...

I predict that a year from now there will be new articles about bitcoin's death. I mean, how long ago did god die? and you still hear about her all the time.

There's hardly a reason to uninstall it, bitterness is one.

For those who do uninstall it, they can still re-install it. Its not like bulldozing a bank, software is cool that way.

Bitcoin can't go away. Its impossible even if 75% of the user base uninstalled their clients.

I cashed out of mine-and-hold long ago because I recognized that bitcoin was overvalued and underutilized. But that's not a permanent thing. to me, bitcoin had little chance to grow when it was 5-20$ per coin. Now that it has settled down, i think its use is going to pick up due to new users who see the tremendous potential. Online poker is one way that could happen. I've personally made a bitcoin transaction in order to fund a merge network poker site just a few days ago. I believe Bitcoin will be back in a big way with online transactions. The price might stay flat for a long time, but price is not the point of bitcoin. Profiting in bitcoin is a bonus and has nothing to do with its usefulness.

Not for everyone...

mining difficulty going down is a wonderful thing

I've noticed the journalism around bitcoin often seems pretty incestuous that way.
It looks like in this slew of articles, it might have been Adrianne Jeffries' little snippet in Betabeat that set the tone;
the reddit user's quote she used has ended up in a few articles.

Why some random redditors quote is newsworthy I don't know.  

Same way Bank of America managemet got rich after BoA stock went from $54 to 3$ (WORSE drop than Bitcoin)

LOL!