The key is to keep sliding a few chips off the table, pay the taxes, pay off debt, and roll the rest into something else.
I applaud all of you who took a risk on this stuff and had it pay off for you. I could have bought it back when it was around $50.00 per, but the fundamentals looked to me then the same as they look to me now.
Other similar crypto-currencies came out subsequently, and who could say which one of these magic currencies would succeed and which would fail?
Congratulations to all who have ridden this thing successfully! :)