So far the retracement is not unusual. Remember that silk road consolidated an entire week or so before finally going into a full breakout.
Also, the difference between now and silk road is we were just in a bear market in the middle of final capitulation, while silk road was during an uptrend. Prices attempted to rally here with a lot of force but were opposed by the large bear market counterforces that existed before the gox crash. This was a rather odd way to end a capitulation and there might be more work to do to buy out all the capitulation coins.
Right, the context between these two events is different while they seem similar in how they unfolded.
I feel like a spring has been coiling beneath the weight of the GOXFUD Boulder and now that the boulder seems to be gone it has shot up. Quite fascinating to watch.