What is happening in the Bitcoin world? What is the near-term price forecast for Bitcoin?
There is nothing wrong with bitcoin and you do not evaluate bitcoin in correspondence to its price because it is meant to be a currency and a mode of transaction rather than a spectacle to gamble with the price and hence you should not evaluate it with the price and think that the price is down because it has some flaws. 
Well, so far to me it seems that it's far more suited to be a sort of digital investment asset that has the flexibility to be easily transacted p2p than a day to day currency. It's possible that it could see some usage in frequent transactions, but it seems to be strongly tending towards the asset class rather than the currency class in my opinion.