any future in this at all or is this a pipe dream?
Isn't every get rich quick a pipe dream?
2 days at most of GPU coin hoarding for all the rig ownders, then back to even fewer XPM and inflated price, subsequently we'll see dumps around 0.01 to 0.015 mark and back down to 0.007 level and stable for months.
It happened already that price jumped on to 0.015 levels and did back down to 0.007-0.008 where it's been stabilized since then.