If you're considering transaction volume and BTCs popularity as one-in-the-same, you're going about it wrong. Bitcoin is only increasing in popularity and it's obvious by the amount of press coverage today compared to October. Today all the major publications (WSJ, Forbes, CNBC, CNN, etc.) release multiple articles on a daily basis. As far as transaction volume...I think we're at a point where nobody knows what will happen next...Are we still in a bubble and will it collapse one day soon...? Or will it just slowly gain with random peaks and values as it seems to have been doing for 3 weeks now?
Or speak spanish ...

Oh yeah, I forgot Google Translate doesn't exist or automate itself within Chrome.

That's my 2 cents, anyway.