Bitcoin only gets so many chances in the public eye.
It's broken through enough that enough people are paying attention to Bitcoin. And it's just in time to watch the textbook crash--(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stages_of_a_bubble.png).
"Where will Bitcoin be a year from now?" Oh--isn't that that one currency that people lost a lot of money in 2013? Litecoin? BitBucks?
Good luck getting anyone to take it seriously again.
In my opinion the current volatility is more a sign of the immaturity of the investors rather than the underlying concept being flawed (many markets are conceptually flawed and absurd from an independent viewpoint however human psychology maintains some weird interest in them that keeps them afloat)
The current volatility is clearly a bubble and the best explanation that I like is that all these computer nerds across the world who haven't been involved with stock markets before have dropped their cash on bitcoins and facilitated the bubble and are unaware of the law of bubbles; that is; that they pop
I continue to watch the Wall Street bubble unfold, fascinated, popcorn at the ready. In the end it'll be like sending herds of cattle through a cheese grater.