But the real thing, that is many people using BTC in their everyday lives, has yet to happen.
This is a common misconception - that bitcoin must achieve widespread usage in order to be obscenely valuable.
As an average consumer, bitcoin doesn't offer me much that I don't already have. If bitcoin must be used for groceries to be successful, I'm selling all of mine today.
As a stock trader, the potential to trade ANY type of contract on ANY security at 100x cheaper price per trade completely anonymously changes
everything. I probably won't actually do it myself (at least not at first - I'm too scared of the law man), but other people will do it in hordes.
People in Nigerian internet cafes will be able to bet a few pennies on any stock for any country in the world. Huge hedge funds will be able to place gigantic bets without anyone knowing where the bet came from.
It will be epic, and they will buy a couple of those bitcoins from me.