Once Ethereum goes to POS and puts a soft cap on, meaning small inflationary rate, with 100 or so million Ethereum being out there, I could see a price of 100 to 200 or so USD per ETH. If Crypto just explodes all bets are off though!

ROFL

just shut up, you have no idea.


my bet would be on august

but yeah, $5000 is very likely by the latter half of the year.

That's not entirely correct some ether will be turned into fiat but a lot of projects will actually be using more ether.  Slock.it for example will take payments in ether and part of that ether will be going straight back to the DAO.  Most of the early projects will likely have to be like this (due to the undetermined legal status of the DAO). 

There is strong support for early projects to be those that grow the ethereum ecosystem for the mutual benefit of ether and DAO users (e.g. ether apps, exchanges like etherex etc.).  This will potentially lead to progressively more and more utility for ether resulting in greater and greater buy support.  It probably won't happen over night but as time goes on and ethereum use cases continue to increase then there will be continued upward pressure on price for ether. 

There is no guarantee but these things are always risky.  It was the same in the early days of bitcoin.  Nobody ever thought there would be enough buyers to support a price of a dollar, let alone hundreds of dollars. 

The momentum behind ether is now getting to the same kind of stage it was in about 2012/13 with Bitcoin so there is very big potential for growth there.

my dilemma now, is do i need to sell my rig now and wait for the new gpu and so no mining for two month, until new ccminer come out, or better to keep mining until they come out, but risking to losing some % on my gpu sales?

Yes i guess for bitcoin touching a price below $ 1,000 is not difficult but i've a question to myself whether bitcoin could reach $ 5,000 in the future.

If it weren't for a plethora of scam coins fooling newbies/newcomers and even guys with 2-3 year experience in cryptos, XMR would have had enjoyed lofty high valuations even now. It's a shame that money is always tied up chasing bad decisions and investments, crypto or otherwise.