I see a lot of obsession with price on these forums. In my opinion, price is a distraction from BTC becoming a success. I measure BTC success on ease of use, levels of adoption, and scalability. Along with decentralization, these should be our obsession.
I also think we should keep the original goals in mind. We need to undermine and even destroy the relationships banks have wirh governments. Let's not forget they are the engine of elitism.
I'd rather see $100 btc that is accepted by millions of retailers and is used regularly than a million doller BTC that is a false store of value.
How do you measure the success of BTC?
People focus in the price because in a way it is the best way to measure all of things you say, the price of bitcoin is going down precisely because it is not very successful at begin adopted all over the world, but if we get to the point in which most retailers stores accept bitcoin you can be sure that its price will be incredibly high in order to reflect that reality.