btc mining ended in Feb 2014 and likely my scrypt miner efforts will end around Feb 2015..
then I'll just sit on my hoard and brood about daily price madness on btc and ltc and hope like the rest of us it does not go tulips/beanie baby/etc

well, the way i see it, if I just buy and hold bitcoin, I get absolutely nothing from this as far as experiences or future memories are concerned.
if bitcoin becomes a pile of digital dust (hopefully, not), then at least you can remember those days, while if you simply buy it and it goes down, then it's just another bad investment. So, I will try to use something for mining and/or learning, maybe a fancy stick, or a needlessly criticized "bitcoin computer" or something else entirely.