I haven't caught up to the thread yet, but I just wanted to say
Welcome to the best thread in the universe (of bitcointalk.org)
Bitcoin is not easy enough for regular people, like iPhone users and such.
I think bitcoin's place is in the background, just like regular people are never going to understands how packets are routed, regular people are never gonna really understand bitcoin.
They need a slick app that makes things easy. Apple and visa are announcing such an app tomorrow apparently, pay pal is just trying to steal some thunder.
Might take a few months, but don't get discouraged, personally I am buying the 500 CAD level every time it gets hit on virtex, with whatever I can afford. New fiat won't be available till the end of the month, I doubt the price will be this affordable by then.

This is not investment advice.
I hope you're right, i won't be buying any more coins as i hope this is the bottom.
I thought we would be experiencing an uptrend when the 1d MACD turned green on the 4th of september. The 12h and 6h had been going up aswell.