For some of us that has been speculating that bitcoin is going to pull back to $3,000 and $1500 I don't think the current stability is going to allow that to come to pass and for those that said bitcoin is to moon, maybe above $20,000 the stability is still not going to allow that to happen. However, if bitcoin price is not stable within a range there is not going to be adoptions buy retail and wholesale business. Stability of price is what will help bitcoin become acceptable.
Most retailers that sell in Bitcoins automatically exchange BTC fro fiat money. There are plenty of such services. So they carry zero risk.
This is a good signs that we need to focus on for now, and for those have the proper understanding on zero risk its time to build a confident ways to handle your trading motivations. Even though stable price doesn't actually raising faster increase in the market value, still we see progress between digital and fiat exchanges eventually synced in and out. That's merely a good signs to visualize for further profitable changes.
Biggest hurdle was higher fees. But those were only few months. Now with Lightning that should stop. It just need some time and Bitcoin have time. Because 2019 will not be year of a hype. So Bitcoin infrastructure will have peaceful year to expand. All is perfectly on track!