Looks like $1000 is going to be the new mean.
It basically already is. Every time the price dips below the $1000 level we'll see it climb back up to over $1000 again due to the demand. If we finally manage to put an end to the long lasting scaling debates, we'll leave behind $1000 basically for many many years. Bitcoin needs to keep up with the demand, and as it is right now, that's not the case. Scaling is the only thing that is left as a negative aspect of how we know Bitcoin right now. Until this comes to an end, we'll stay more or less around current levels with a potential peak to $1200-$1300.
so it doesn't count lol, actually any given price holding it's position more than 3 business days with only $5-$25 volatility in average should be considered a healthy and natural price, and hopefully antpool will stop the insanity before it's too late and we'll see what happens then because even then we'll need to think about scaling the network capacity for handling more than 10 transactions per second at least for this year.