By next year end can we see the prices around $3? Is that possible?
Absolutely. Iota is just stirring, making its first moves. Iota Is not even on the radar for 99.9% of the people who are destined to become its greatest fans. Satoshi Nakamotos 2009 elegant but flawed bitcoin project showed us the way but it was never going to be the final word on the subject. All the things that bitcoin was hope to be will not come to fruition. However, bitcoin will become digital gold for millennials just like physical gold is for the baby boomers. So its future as a high value wealth preserving asset is assured. However, for a working crypto currency for finance and industry we have to look elsewhere. Up until the advent of Iota we only really had bitcoin clones, with the usual problems of the blockchain.
Now with the advent of Iota the path is clear for fee less micro-transactions, machine to machine transactions, an ultrafast, scalable, miner- less, true peer-to-peer crypto currency.
Comparing Iotas tangle to blockchain technology is like comparing a Ferrari to the horse and cart.
So as for price? Iota must equal at least a volume adjusted current Ethereum price in my opinion. So that would be $17. Of course when Iota reaches $17 Ethereum could be much higher, but in the end, once realization of the potential of Iota sets in who knows what that upper price is going to be.