You can complain about vendors going on hiatus, but buyers were doing the same thing when BTC price was exploding. There's at least one thread in this subforum where vendors were talking about lower sales and buyers explicitly told them that they were waiting for BTC to keep rising so they could get more value for their coins. So it goes both ways. Ultimately, any large movement in price is going to reduce trade. Stability is the best thing to promote trade. In any case, I see about 3020 domestic US listings and there were 3100 before, so only about 3% of the listings have been taken down, at best. They just happen to be some of the top vendors, like Nod and Kush in the stimulants category, so it's noticeable.