As I have about $20 invested in any cryptocurrency ever, I'm not really one to care, but I feel the general trend for any new thing is that the value shoots up extremely high at first, then drops disappointingly low, and then repeats that cycle (but less intense) until it becomes mostly stable. And I feel like it'll hover around $750 (halfway between current "low" $500 and "high" of $1000) once it's stable, but you know? I'm not an economist, and even they are confused about the future of this.

As for me, I'm in for the long haul. It introduced me to cryptography and as a thank-you to the community I'll mine and stake and follow bitcoin/litecoin/altcoins as long as it's reasonably stable.