Bitcoin will live. It's not just a tool for speculating and making money, it is not even a means of payment. Bitcoin is a new area in people's lives. You can say that Bitcoin falls in price, that its worthless and blah blah blah. Bitcoin will live and develop as long as we need it. Find me an example of another type of currency that would provide the same anonymity and, at the same time, openness.
Bitcoin will be whatever we make it to be. People sees it as whatever we make them believe it is. To be honest a lot of people here doesnt see Bitcoin the same way you see it. They see it as a way for them to gather quick money within a short term, but its not like that.
A lot of people I talk to about Bitcoin keeps asking this same particular questions am I going to make money from it? How fast is it going to be? And all that.