Once the price has been stagnant for a while, smart money starts to move in and the price rises around 5000-7000 usd and then some early gamblers will enter, also a bankers and Wall Street might buy in and if that happens, the price of bitcoin will for sure go to 1000 000 usd/btc.
i like your big sky thinking but it don't feel that simple to me. people were saying the same in 2013/2014 by the looks of things and they ended up having a bad time.
we need to wipe out the current breed of manipulators to step on up. the only thing that'll do that is more buyers. let's see if there's a compelling reason for them to show up.