I definitely agree Greg. In fact we were talking about the exact same thing at lunch today. Looking at it from an angle not related to market action, my work mate mentioned the idea that the powers that be could push the narrative of just how bad Bitcoin can be in respects to dirty black market uses. The fact that it is annonomous and, as we know, used in large amounts on the dark web. Bringing the public to the belief that big brother needs to step in and add a layer of ownership to the transactions. Now I don't know enough about the blockchain technology to know how they could do this, but I could see a huge amount of public support for making Bitcoin and other didgital currency an identifiable transaction.
Thanks for bringing up the media coverage, I hadn't noticed but your right, no one on TV explaining how it affected them or if they decided to pay or not. Very suspicious!!