The more I see and the more I know about these two projects, the more I'm in the million to billion camp!

I feel the same. I'd like to point out the recent bitshares worker proposal which got approved. It contains very valuable informations about where BTS is heading.
The most important in my eyes is the upcoming development of "trustless gateways" and "confidential transactions", they would bring true decentralization and true privacy. Two things that initially brang a lot of people into the cryptoworld