[throwaway1979]

The upside is much lower though if it goes to 2K at this point. I think a bunch of us want to kick ourselves because the insane upside is gone. i.e. 100x. Those crazy returns were usually reserved for VCs :-p

I bought a small amount now. Total speculation. Not enough to ever make a difference to me. I guess I'm like an entrepreneur who got heavily diluted.

My total guess is that there is a lot of pent up demand right now. A lot of tech people have already got into it but a lot more "normals" will take time to figure out how to get into bitcoin. Again, my guess is that it could collapse once the last of the "normals" has gotten theirs. Some chance there will be a day trading platform come out of it. Some chance it will become a lot bigger ... global currency level big. Who knows?