Under whatever metric we evaluate bitcoin ,

By consumer adoption, by merchant adoption, by use value, venture capital invested etc, etc,

it seems finally that the price is the single largest indicator of its success or failure! period

because even when other metrics are low and price is in an upswing everybody praise bitcoin but when every other metric is good and price is down then everybody calls bitcoin a failure like they call now..

Bitcoin to reach mainstream the truth is the price has to go to moon like nov13...the only people will flock to bitcoin..

No matter bitcoin gets accepted by Microsoft today and Facebook tomorrow! still mainstream people wont give a shit about bitcoins!

But a craze that price will increase like the dotcom bubble will flock people in and make it successful!