Originally Posted by
Colonel Cærdiffi
It's always been the way of Bitcoin, it rises sharply then crashes, then rises higher and crashes and so on. At the moment there's a lot of interest in the technologies that are being developed on the back of Bitcoin but pretty much all analysts will tell you it's due for its latest crash soon enough.
You'd be quite wise to be interested in holding some amount of BTC though, "in case of emergencies".