We're at $2.46 ... can we please not talk about $1000?
The most likely scenario is that XMR will fail.
How?
It looks to me like there will be a replacement as the development progress has slowed to a crawl.
This is kind of an insult to everyone working on Monero currently. I'd argue that with the RingCT development, 0MQ development, GUI development, the conventional adding of features, and fixing bugs, the development is way more active than last summer.