I mined plenty too, what does that have to do with anything. The difficulty changing doesnt change enough by dropping to make it so much easier to create a bitcoin and cheaper to create a bitcoin then 2 dollars that 1 bitcoin is worth at this point does it?  No one will mine if it doesnt make financial sense and you lose money, no business will accept it if there bitcoins are worth half as much tomorrow as they were today, keeping it as a fad that will pass on, or if u dont want to say fad and make it sound cooler its an experimental micro economy that its advocates would like to see increase in size.  That just keeps it a nerdy, cool, fun little thing to play with.  The point of bitcoin would be to have it function better then a dollar does.  A dollar is stable, still a dollar today, still a dollar tomorrow, prices of products change, but not the dollar.  Bitcoins change in value and the products change in price, you cant have both, and the cost of making bitcoins is very high right now.  U need stability, u need a good price point or were just buying useless small items on forums, trading them for some reason, when really you could buy it for a dollar. Unless you need to buy drugs with it.