It certainly helps Bitcoin that the press makes no effort to contextualize let alone dissect the crude dimensions by which the success of Bitcoin is measured, namely price and market cap.
Bitcoin's market cap is like a building erected specifically to claim an astonishing height record for skyscrapers, but in which the base of the structure consists of a dozen or so real floors topped by a constantly unspooling wire antenna held aloft by a weather balloon 5km up.
Bitcoin's market cap is like a building erected specifically to claim an astonishing height record for skyscrapers, but in which the base of the structure consists of a dozen or so real floors topped by a constantly unspooling wire antenna held aloft by a weather balloon 5km up.