Thank you for the informative read and the nice conversation sparked here. I'm not too sure of the bitcoin politics, but I tend to stray away from traders and pumpers, those guys "selling" are actually mining us, they've bought in and they need a ROI, at least that is what I can see in the faces of the "traders" it's the same as Peter Schiff for instance pumping the gold market. He's against bitcoins, why? because there are a million reasons if you don't have any :D and a million reasons gold is the greatest gift to mankind, or is it.
Market mentality is profits, and that clouds judgement and destroys perspective, "look at how good we have it" let's not change it's great. Meanwhile all the innovation is stifled.