is there some kinda rule here against mentioning SR? in all of these threads it does not seem to come up...the way i look at it is people need to buy btc in order to initiate the transactions which are profitable enough to them in many cases that they could even be supporting themselves on it so if they cant get the coins they want in a timely fashion they will up the offer price...as long as nothing changes those simple facts i dont see why the price of btc would drop back down below 100 again barring some crazy catastrophic event for more then a very short time...i know people that rely on the bitcoin system to make transactions that otherwise would not be possible and i think that alone is enough to sustain btc well into the future