I realize now how much his brief childhood at the USAF base shaped his identity . <| sep |> You make some excellent points . As I was reading a few different things came to mind that makes me think that price matters less for Ethereum than for other cryptocoin . If you are talking about the proliferation and security of the Ethereum main public network then price does matter . It the price gets too low that can cause attacks on the network to become cheaper to execute . Unlike nearly every other cryptocurrency , many major institutions from around the world are experimenting , improving , and supporting Ethereum . Much of that development and support is in the research and privateconsortium chain side which is less dramatic and more boring . These contributions are hard to see sometimes , but is nonetheless important and unrivaled in the world if cryptocurrency . In the early years of multiple decentralized systems , such as Bitcoin and DASH , a number of major consensus and protocol issues were discovered and fixed . Prices dropped to very low levels during that time , but eventually recovered . One of the driving reasons that the development continued despite adversity is the belief if the core technology from the dev tean . A common trend I ' ve seen in the most successful cryptocoins are developers who focus 99 % of their focus on the technology and 1 % on the price . It is a quality that is hard to come by , but I believe the majority of core Eth devs have this . Many of the best minds in the space are not motivated by financial gains , but by the promise of the software they are developing and the fulfillment they receive from making a difference . I have zero concern about the price causing intelligent members of the Eth community from leaving .