It just show that release date had not come out. Price was decreasing last months altho sort beta 0.9 release was long time out. None out of core team knew and expected it will happen today.
Price of Monero decreased from 0.0015 to 0.001 BTC in 2015. I doubt at end of 2016 will be only as high as it was in beginning of 2015 but much higher. Most possibly Monero will be coin that will gain most in 2016 out of top20 by capitalizations coins.
Hydrogen Helix is real start of Monero. Monero ended qualifications and set ready on start of crypto race.
I sort of speculate we will get similar New Years present as we did 2 years ago when we got 0.9.0 Hydrogen Helix. So I went to check 2 years ago posts and saw this one. I was actually for once right, since Monero was the best performing coin of 2016.
It is also funny that lots of posts back then was about multisig.