2019 will be crucial for many projects that started last year and this one including Dust. In some way, the future of crypto depends on 2019 to bring some results from all the projects that raised so much money in 2017, otherwise people will stop believing in blockchain.
A huge number of people who have lost money in cryptocurrency have already ceased to believe in the blockchain. But in a few years, maybe 2-4 years, the new younger generation will join the ranks of new crypto investors and traders. Since they had no sad experience. The previous generation they think is stupid, and themselves smart. This cycle of alternation of generations is repeated infinitely. Perhaps a new pump is possible somewhere in the period of reducing the reward for the bitcoin block.
It should not be about speculation/making bucks. If these platform indeed gain adoption and utility then price will rise.