When the price stabilized everyone talked about it less. Whenever block halvings happen or whenever new wealth flows into it, the price oscillates like waves and the media gets excited until things settle down again before the process repeats itself. Overall, this is all kind of entertaining to watch since every new technology has hype-cycles. Of course the block-chain technology bit-coin is built on will probably be around for a while whether this currency lives or gets replaced by something else since it's pretty much an infrastructure for a different kind of internet.

I personally think the worst that could happen to humanity is if everyone devolves into grey aliens and the best thing that could happen is that we find ways of shaping the world as easily as Minecraft biomes when things like biotech and fabrication become much cheaper.