No, I don't think we will reach 1200$ by 2017. The rise has been too fast, we will get down pretty soon and pretty hardly. Let's tell it, we've all started dreaming again, even me. The newcomers are now having the feeling that they are in the "ATH story" that so many people are telling again and again. But to be frank, in that ATH, the most memorable is the hard downtrend that followed. I don't think we'll escape that patern. I greatly hope that I'm wrong, because my savings would be worth a lot more, but I think I'm right.
Interesting for sure ! It still needs to be clearer what will be the Bitcoin data, but I guess that if they put the the Bitcoin symbol (BTC) beside the dollar ($) sign, that'll be great passive advertisement.
Someone that will hack you will be someone that is probably aware of Bitcoin. I wouldn't also trust the societies that provide you such services. They're well-known to attack the privacy of their customers.
That's technically impossible, so not that much to fear about ! What they could do maybe is to impose something on shops, but we'll simply go somewher else ...
For me the main reason is that it is quite hard to convert it to fiat. Talking about that, I find them too greedy. They're doing more and more fund raising campaigns, and I don't like that pretty much.