Yeah hahaha, sorry about that, accidental fud I guess, my bad. Happy to provide a laugh. I meant that sarcastically/ironically to insult the shorters (who seem utterly fucking hellbent on crashing price, in spite of the *majority of people* who seem to all want it to go up and expect significantly greater prices). Of course bitcoin cannot die, it's software, it can however be devalued by 200:1 and stagnate there perpetually until obscurity (worst case disaster scenario fundamental tech issue only, of course). I have a tinfoil cowboy hat somewhere out in the garage, so I wouldn't argue against the possibility of intentional suppression of the bitcoin price for geopolitical reasons, rather than for individual profit motive. I'd rather hope it's for profit reason and not political though, hedge fund managers/wealthy individuals are likely better for everyone to be the cause than governments/banks - the former will eventually or occasionally want upward movement, the latter would likely only want total failure.

I'm not so sure on the whole geopolitical thing, it's been shown that governments have no clue when it comes to bitcoin, hell they don't even understand how the internet works. I'd lean more towards a bunch of skilled financial traders who would have a field day with all the trading inexperience in bitcoinland. This is why I've never traded, I know when I'm out of my depth.
There's always the possible "bad cop" scenario where someone in the government could be using their clout to make some sort of a difference, a la "Mark Force", but I don't think they'd stand a chance against any moderately experienced trader anyway.