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> Hopefully it crashes, stables out and then gains use as a currency rather than an investment.

That's impossible. The only low stable price is $0 which is useless as a currency. Only when its user base is no longer growing and there is enough value to satisfy the entire user base will it stabilize. My expectation is that unless it dies entirely it will continue to grow until it has more or less total global coverage. With the limited supply of BTC, it has to be worth much more than $200 apiece.

A crash just causes problems but if you want to use it as a currency I think what you really want to move the decimal, which is purely a representation issue: it's ~$2/centiBTC.