Monero will inevitably keep rising, steady and organic. Not based on religion, speculation. It is based on the fact that in all of mankind's existence except the last 30 years. Private economy has been private by obvious reasons (mainly theft). We also have..
All the fundamentals of evaluating an asset, market size of capital in offshore, transactions that are done outside the tax system, from your local foodtruck to your carpenter friend, to the local drug dealer etc.
The future plans of the elites. Cash free society and CBDC.
Normie's are mindblown every time I show them how to setup a wallet and I make a transfer and explain to them that no one have a clue about this transfer.
The monero community is very paranoid, idealistic and sceptical in it's nature, it is a project that is very hard to corrupt. Some may have a status, but no one is king. People in this community know how all others projects have been corrupted, by bribing or extorting the authorities. All playbooks from successful and unsuccessful majority attacks have been played out.
If there is hope for humanity, it lays within decentralized structures of people who hate authorities..