Hearn's tone deaf
cri de coeur doth protest too much and reminds me of what writer Mary McCarthy said about playwright Lillian Hellman: her "every word is a lie, even
and and
the." It's a pity the crowdsourcing prediction-market system
Augur.net isn't up and running yet. It would have been a counterbalance to the news media's use of the "issue" as breathless click-bait and I agree with those who see the price drop as a herd-panic over the Cryptsy crash.
Bitcoin isn't dead. It's just doing what all successful revolutions do: taking on a life of its own. Kind of like the election of Andrew Jackson.