Bullion dealers (JM Bullion, Provident Metals, etc.) are readily exchanging BC for their products, and they'll ship them right to you which, in a sense, adds physical precious metals to the exponentially growing crypto-currency basket. That would seem to go a long way towards stabilizing what should undoubtedly be a highly volatile emerging market. A lucky few become rich by speculating (and my sincere congratulations to those who've done well by speculating in cryptos), but the rich protect their wealth not by continued speculation, but through constant diversification of their assets. That, and staying away from abstruse gimmicks that reek of Ponzi-esque chicanery.