+1

BTC isn't a very suitable yardstick to measure value against. For all you can say against fiat money (which is rather a lot) it does tend, in the short term, to buy a similar amount of real-world value, so it's much more appropriate to measure the value of VTC against a somewhat stable reference like fiat - when you do this, you'll find the purchasing power of VTC hasn't really budged in this "downtrend". Given the large amount of ongoing investment that implies (which other people in the last few posts have put in terms of specific numbers), it's a very positive sign for VTC.