The only way disruptive technology can grow is through bubble-burst cycles. You aren't going to see something as game changing as bitcoin grow smoothly, it's just impossible and it's in its nature go go like that.

So forget about a smooth ride, and get ready for insane price rises up to $10,000, with crashes of down to more than half the rise, then a higher floor and then another period of stable price, then $50,000 or $100,000+... that's how this goes.