There isn't a day that goes by that isn't flooded with news (term used loosely) of Bitcoin's demise and it's dramatic price drop over the last year. Investments should be looked at from a long term perspective, but that is pretty tough to do in the current state of the industry with it's disappearing ICOs, scams, marketcaps that don't mean anything, a pervasive 'get rich quick' attitude, and on and on...

This is for the Reddit commenter and anyone else that has a longer term vision - https://www.dnotesedu.com/2018/12/bitcoin-then-and-now-dec-2015-vs-dec-2018/