That's what I thought and probably I'm not the last person who makes fun of your username. I don't approve people indicating that they should somehow be treated differently than the majority because they have something else between their legs than the majority. Last time I checked bitcointalk.org did not have dating subforum and thus advertising your gender in these forums seems inappropriate. While it's good to know that there are females in the community, asking for special treatment basically says that you don't want to be treated equally to men. The latter gets you in a pretty uncomfortable position, considering the hypocrisy in feminism. If this place was anything like 4chan, any reference to OP being a girl would get an instant answer "TITS OR GTFO".

The problem is, there's always a solid chance that it never goes back up.

I've always taken the Bill Gates approach to Bitcoin. It's an amazing and extremely useful technology, but it's still very primitive and may not be the "one". I think cryptography in currency has a bright future, but I'm just not so sure it's going to involve Bitcoin. If you look at what the larger investors are doing, they're investing in the cryptopayment industry, but not bitcoin itself. (Even suckers investors like Tim Draper aren't investing in coins in hopes their price goes up - they're investing in the overall industry.)

Cryptocurrency technology is invaluable and may be a vital component of the future of money. However, I just don't expect a digital play money from 2009 to really be relevant in 2020, even if some of the possible technical advancements do fully fruition (e.g. sidechains).

Just remember how small the market cap of bitcoin itself is compared to the large companies of today. 5-10 billion dollars is absolutely nothing when we're talking about the global financial system. A payment solution based around cryptography that is used heavily by either consumers, businesses, or banks could have a greater value than 5-10 billion in a single year, let alone 6 like bitcoin. People don't view bitcoin as value in the same way they view a literal company as value.....and I don't expect that to ever change.

Open source is great for technological advancements, but makes monetization challenging.

I'll buy the crap out of Bitcoin if it goes back into double digits! And I'm quite certain a lot of other people will to the same. Keep in mind, we'd have to go down about 65% still to reach double digits. This is quite a number.

Yeah we could go very low if that happens. The block reward halving on the other hand makes me wonder how much of it may be priced in already... Not quite sure how to gauge this, to be honest...

not so sure about that. A halving doesn't increase demand. Halving only means the bleeding halves.