I surely hope the floodgates will open and little old ladies like me get in here. Until that mass adoption happens, stability will not come.

I'm excited to see all the coins and their purposes and learn about them daily through @maarnio's crypto contests, which I highly recommend joining. The low fees and speed of transactions are key points of interest for me. That is a selling point for almost every coin he features. I transfer money between 3 countries right now and pay high fees everywhere in the fiat world. The several crypto coins I am in now all have very low fees - or no fees.

Out in the larger world all anyone knows about is btc and the mainstream news is full of scare tactics. Meanwhile, I think a lot of bigger interests are quietly buying in since they know this is going to pop for good one day. The sooner the better.