Comment Not a currency yet (Score 3, Insightful) 476
These swings are fairly meaningless since Bitcoin hasn't achieved its goal of becoming a currency yet.
The markets have turned it into a volatile foreign exchange game, and people are just trying to make a quick buck playing the market. There currently isn't any 'currency' aspect to it, since there's damn near nothing you can buy with bitcoins.
Since they failed to achieve any intrinsic value of their own, they are currently just bad, unreliable representations of legal tender. As long as that is true, nobody will ever accept them as payment for real goods or services.