As I said on another post that got a bit more buried, what matters is not that there was a crisis; it is a fully correct and accurate observation that conventional currency has crises too, and sometimes they even entirely collapse. What matters for BitCoin is the same thing that matters for conventional currency, which is what comes next.

Again, rationality forces me to concede that I did not expect BitCoin to recover this well. Look at the past six months of BitCoin value [1] and this barely shows as a blip. This is, of course, because the currency itself is pretty darned volatile still, but, you know, still not what I would have predicted, and I have to respect that.

[1]: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg180ztgMzm1g10z...