OP, did you buy back in yet and cut your loses? Remember the best professional traders on WS cut losses and change position very very quickly...
Truth is, I didn't really know enough at that time to grasp it all. I had no idea about our monetary system, I had no idea why decentralized even mattered so, it really became a battle against ideology and not the tech. As I've learned Ripple, I've learned more about the whole crypto-space. I've learned tons about our failing global monetary system, what the bills in my wallet really are and the list goes on. From that I realize that this is all really important. Whether it will be Bitcoin or something like it, the truth is we have to do something.
One of Bitcoin's greatest properties is it forces people to both learn about and question the current monetary system before one can fully buy into the concept. IMHO most people who bash Bitcoin (ignorantly) in the comment sections of MSM articles clearly are those who so far refuse to learn about the system and just take the common misconceptions as fact. Bitcoin will slowly but surely awaken many.