I also want to add this,
Most people aren't really worried about the drop in price because they aren't holding too many BitCoins, so what if someone in US lost 100 bucks in BitCoin? that's why they are fighting any opinion that disagree with BitCoin because they aren't carrying much loss.
However those who have too many BitCoins, then it is a different deal.
What I wanted to add here really is: BitCoins right now is stuck "on the border" which the worse that can happen for any business. it is not advancing to be the currency we are looking for so we can celebrate the success, and at the same time it is not failing and dropping to zero so people can get out of it and forget about it.
BitCoins right now is only a mean to trade, something to keep people busy using the exchange website and trade with it.
Off course which in result, it is dragging people appetite between the hope of becoming rich someday, while those traders are taking advantage of it by buying and selling BitCoin.
If BitCoin was a stock, well Satoshi could have said that from the start, but it isn't meant to be a stock, but right now it is a stock that is just meant to keep people busy trading 24 hours.