Allow me to an express a view on the factual points you raised, creekbore:
I'm talking about the fact that the news, satire programs, newspapers, magazines etc ridicule BTC.
All press is good press. Just wait until the next wave of pedophiles and terrorists.
I talk to people about BTC and they think I'm a crank.
Always true of the vanguard. It means there's a lot of upside.
The IRS statement,
Good news. Institutional money would not touch it until there was tax clarity.
China's slow strangulation of BTC,
Admittedly painful, but to be expected, and not in any way fatal.
Gox,
That's over.
the FUD surrounding NeoBee
NeoBee is rather minor. Cyprus? Noise.
The bid/sum ratio is dreadful, you can't dispute the numbers
Bids 50% out from the book can't be taken seriously.
You bring up adoption metrics but I actually raised this issue -- most of the data available through blockchain suggest adoption is going very poorly. But instead lets focus on a single set of data (increased BTC addresses) ...but I use a new address for withdrawals and deposits everytime I do a BTC tx. I suspect many do the same, so this data is meaningless. No-one comments on this.
You are mistaken regarding which number I deem significant. New addresses is not significant. The number of active addresses during a rolling window is the best representation available for the size of the commerce network. The only other number which reflects this vigor is the value transferred, again, during a rolling window.
Instead I get a page of n^p x p>x means everything is OK.
It is what it is. Whether it is OK or not is very subjective. You might enjoy a benzodiazepine. Not too much now. It will make you feel things are a bit more OK.
Price can do many things, but it can't deviate from fundamental value for too long, or there is arbitrage.