I dont' take it as a shot at all.But bitcoin turned into a speculation. All you have to do is look at a chart from inception and you see a pattern that has played itself out from all history. I can still see bitcoins being at 1:1 - and for the record, a BID at 2.50 would never get bitcoin to a 1:1 level, that's putting a massive floor on the price at 2.50USD/BTC. if you had an offer for 500k at 1.00 though, you can bet your ass BTC would be a dollar as fast as MtGox's servers could handle that much volume.