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Bitcoin has been above four digits for the longest period ever.Localbitcoins trading volume have reached $32 millions per week.This may be due to chinese switching to localbitcoins due to strict regulations of PBOC.As per google statistics, bitcoin searches have increased in many countries this year,especially in africa and the baltic region.Bitcoin ATMs have reached around 1081 ATMs across 56 countries.US andf Europe share largest share of bitcoin ATMs.Bitcoin community is growing upwards with increase in bitcoin wallets,transactions,price and trading volumes.Bitcoin progress continues on and on.

That is big step of the bitcoin and also a big step of the human future. Why there still some countries are blocking this big future, yes bitcoin might have some flaw, but we can working together to fix this problem. About the ATM machine, that is really great to hear, the more of this bitcoin ATM spreading around the world, more stronger Bitcoin can be IMO. Soon we will seeing bitcoin everywhere, when that day come, Bitcoin is unstoppable. 2017 is a important year of Bitcoin.

good stats, but please add some proper formatting to your post. using bullets may be a good idea, it makes the post easier to read and understand.

and about localbitcoins i have to say you could have gained the statistics based on country in order to see which one has spiked, and yes in China the volume coming from LBC has gone up even since PBoC but i am expecting a drop since they are going back to their exchanges.

Edit: ah what the heck let me do it for ya (added 1):

I think it would stay in four digits until April the safe way to say that bitcoin would stay in the 4 digit mark value, well I know that it drop to $966 dollar the other week but it go back up again I think it would stay and play it's way up there I think everyone of us have contribute in it even in the smallest way we can.

2017 can be considered as a successful year for bitcoin, it has grown very well compared to what happened in 2016, and that accomplishment lasted a great time, which is a good thing for Those who use bitcoin. The bitcoin market has become beautiful and widely expected. However, at present, that development is being blocked. Bitcoin is branched, hardfork is forced to happen and the main reason is the greed of the miners. That's bad

Wow that is great 1081 bitcoin ATMs across 56 countries, do you have any source for the link of it? And that's a very great progress for bitcoin this year and with those Chinese trades , surely no one can stop them from trading as it is profitable to them. We will see more before this year ends.

Each year bitcoin seems to keep on showing us a very nice progress. And each year is always considered as a year for bitcoin. I didn't know that there are a lot of ATM's around the world already. And I guess the next thing we will expect is that many businesses are going to adopt and start using bitcoin.

OP, your post is a little torch shining in the darkness and I really appreciate that. The statistics might not be that accurate, but it still gives us a

bit of hope that this is still going in the right direction. We have been so busy with BTC vs BU discussions that we forget about the positive growth

that are still happening. Thanks for this thread... It is a light in the dark.  ;D

ATM has been highly developed in the world. but seen bitcoin ATM usage is not optimal. there are still many people who have more confidence to use online wallet. the more people use a bitcoin exchange to exchange with real money. they do not use bitcoin ATM because it is too complicated.

I think the key why bitcoin is making more progress is spreading its word. Nowadays, people are more active on the internet and that is the bridge that makes them discover the bitcoin. Internet is very helpful for introducing this new type of currency.

Bitcoin made a great progress in 2017, this is the time where bitcoin ever passed 1000$ and there are so many interesting incident happened, this has proven that bitcoin in the state of developing, so many people start to used and invest in bitcoin, so Bitcoin making a great process in 2017 hopefully it will continue to grow in the future

Yeah i think bitcoin will rise more as it is now before the month of April 2017.
As thr way see other currency is going below so bitcoin is going to tropple them all.
For my own view of things  i msy say that bitcoin will reach four figure digit.

To me, the biggest progress will be to resolve the blocksize debate and bitcoin community can once again united by the end of the year. Just hope everyone will continue to stay and not give up on bitcoin....

Seems like 2017 is bitcoin years I was surprised that finally bitcoin reached 4 digits as we expected, this also proves that bitcoin can survive. Anyway there is two bitcoin ATMs here although i rarely used them but it causes many people wondering and maybe sooner or later they would know it, such a promotion and give an opportunity for them to embrace bitcoin, buy them, or use them. However there are many problems for the bitcoin in this year like BU,Core etc hoping the problem will be fixed soon.

Why would we give up, the money is there and the marketing is progressing, I don't see any reason why one do that.
All we can hear are just rumors and it's not successful of making bitcoin down, we have seen it was down for awhile but eventually it back up.

The whole fight for supremacy between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited are putting a hold on many projects that might take Bitcoin to the Moon. There are some companies working in the background, who are still dedicated to the cause and they are quietly making big strides forward in this scene.

I think we should ignore all the noise and just focus on the future for now, because Bitcoin will survive no matter what.

Let them fight for control, but we concentrate on growth and adoption and marketing and the things we have control over. ^smile^   

Very true.

The fact is that this pump was spread out through a long period unlike the 2013 pump whcih was only a few days, and then came the dump. Basically everyone in the community knew very well at that time that the price was unsustainable, with such a high mining reward as well.

Right now we have just got block halving a year or so back, and miners are having to generate more profit because of the new block reward. And it is obvious for now that bitcoin price is thriving.

As for the localbitcoins volumes, it is largely as a result of the Chinese. Everyone is moving there to trade right now because it is anonymous and the central exchanges have just been basically robbed of business by the government recently.

I can see bitcoin trading moving towards a more P2P model, which is what Satoshi originally intended.

The ongoing year 2017 seems to be one among the best year for bitcoin in terms of growth, adoption and acceptance of stores as a currency, in terms of capital, price and all time high and so on. At the same it too have overcome some of the major technical issues and backlogs that got in the network. On the whole bitcoin is progressing more and more.

I don't think that BTMs are way to go either. I thought that they might be a way for Average Joe to reach out for bitcoin easier, but do we really need them?
BTMs are more like real world's bitcoin banners, a poster of some sort. How many of you actually used them to buy Bitcoin?
Most BTMs I know are collecting info about you/record your face and they are more expensive to use than standard bitcoin exchange.
What's the point? It is not like you use BTM like standard ATM (for emergency reasons when you are out of cash).

Yes, this year and 2018 will be good for bitcoin and business of blockchain until technology do not hit a wall similar to Project Liberty Alliance. Bitcoin is gaining more and more ground which is good for bitcoin future.

We already made another ATH for this year, do you think we can break it again this coming and left months? Hopefully... Its demands goes higher and higher, internet users are getting curious about it and also engage to join in our online money making. Because of our great devs, they can provide the best support to improve the network.

We've seen the most growth bitcoin have since its inception if you would only consider generic growth. This is a good development. This could be more if scaling can be resolve. Looking for a brighter 2017 for bitcoin.

There are still 3 quarters left, I am positive that Bitcoin can reach another ATH this year.  Setting BU and BC agenda wars aside, Bitcoin is ever growing.  Whether there is fork or none, we can not hide the fact that people are very enthusiastic in the comfort in transaction (talking about direct transfers here) with Bitcoin.  Aside from that market is very young, there are lots of places to saturate with Bitcoin.  And if ever this scaling problem is solved in either of the two proposal, there is no way for Bitcoin but to go up. 

Agreed with your opinion here. There are more and more investors get involved with Bitcoin recently. It won't be a surprise, if there will be another ATH for Bitcoin this year (even though the $10,000 milestone seems a little bit far from here, but everything is possible...)

Great work op highlighting the achievement bitcoin has made over the years, and great to know that
bitcoin have been making progress each year it just shows that bitcoin is still on the rise.

most important is that with the current situation that bitcoin faces it is nice to see a good
new especially with this dilemma over Bitcoin and Bu.

It is true even with the recent FUD ( I called them FUD because they are just creating some uncertainty over the matter that has not yet happening)  many people are putting their savings ang faith to Bitcoin.  And if ever a split is created, we should be happy because with the lowered price came the two chain with our Bitcoins in it.  So that is double our amount of coins.

Even with the doom and gloom predictions of an impending hard fork, Bitcoin is poised for global success and more mass adoption as I see more and more lay people, even like my father who how is a holder of digital currency, coming into the fold. If people like my family are now beginning to understand what Bitcoin is who a few years ago thought it was some alien currency from outer space are coming into Bitcoin, then that says it all..We are going to the stratosphere in a few years from now at least.  :)

It is pretty amazing to see how much bitcoin has grown.
And I consider myself lucky for being around to see Bitcoin grow. The current period of time will be like a big part of bitcoin history. Hope to see bitcoin grow even further, and I know that all of us will witness it :D

Yea, 2017 is an amazing year for Bitcoin and whole Bitcoin community. Now I'm waiting for 5 digits :) When Bitcoin was created it was impossible to imagine that BTC price will pass 1000 dollars, so I believe that 5 digits can be reached as well  ::)

bitcoin prices now there are over 1000USD. still likely to rise again. because there are many things that can affect the price of bitcoin today. the development of the financial sector was more positive when influenced bitcoin prices.

You guys keep in mind that BTC atms are there for marketing purposes. Probably the cost of maintaining them highly outweights the benefit derived from the actual usage. But they do good for publicity, so most likely the whales are the ones "sponsoring" them because they have the most to gain from it, and the cash to fund it.

Even though I don't exactly know how much would cost someone to buy this kind of machine because I found only this site (https://coinatmradar.com/shop/buy-bitcoin-atm/) I am pretty sure that the maintenance cost is not high. I recently used one of this and I asked the owner of the store, where the machine was located in, but he answered that he had it more than one year and there is no need for maintenance till now. But if someone wants to use it fees are high (8% + kraken price) so I believe that the owner will not feel dissatisfied.

What do i likw so far about the bitcoin progress is the current state of its adoption. Bitcoi is getting widely known day by day and we cant deny the fact that i is attracting a lot of new users.

I think that was impossible right now, even though it was 4 digits right now. It is impossible to jump right into 5 digits. Remember that when it pumps into $1300 or even close to $1400. It dumps right after, because people who are holding Bitcoin with a base amount of $800 (last Bitcoin's stable price) - $1000. When its price climbed up to $1500 even me I will sell my bitcoin since I have a decent profit from it. The implication, its price will dump again then will stabilize its price then pump, and the cycle repeats.

This has definitely been a productive start of the year. Also most of last year was very good for Bitcoin with the price more than doubling.

Well on my own opinion I think bitcoin is really in a great progress in this year,
I mean its price increasing so much and staying high in the last couple of months.

At a standstill, awareness has not significantly increased since 2014, neither has reception.

Bitcoin gain its value more higher than the previous year it has been develop. And many people are get interested now to bitcoin. They are now investing in bitcoins. A lot of people are earning a lot now.

Its a kind of banking actually you works, If you buy a btc debit card to use in the ATM. Simply they consume charge for usage monthly and delivery charges also applicable according to the location.
Don't mind about the whales. However, if they involves in bitcoin investments. They will look into scratch to top. About progression, I think price may touch the next peak value before this year ends and Top MNCs may start accepting bitcoin to buy their products.

Many governments of the world do not like this progress. Especially China. And they first began to panic and establish different rules.
But despite this bitcoin continues to exist.
If he survives a fork without loss, then he has nothing to fear

Bitcoin this year reached many corners of the world and became more visible by the community. More and more people are getting aware of it and became interested to it. I have a friend whose only focus in the past years is only about stocks and commodities. Just recently, he stumbled upon BTC and got hooked with it. But, as we may have noticed, getting well-known has its own cons. Problems arose such as long confirmation time, high network fees, etc. All in all, Bitcoin's progressing well this year and looking forward to what it will offer in the future.

Bitcoin is really popular to people because of its price, still many people want to invest their money in this digital currency because many people has successfully gained profit from it. I think Bitcoin progress will increase more and more every year, not every year, maybe every half a year.

As long as there are people who support and use bitcoin, it will be more progressive than ever. Here in our country, there are only a few that use bitcoin though it is now acknowledge by our banks, which is really for me, a big progress because it will help the people to know bitcoin when banks are accepting them.

We people are more powerful than those government, we are the one that elect them si they must be worthy of that selection. And I think that the government will nover stop the people using bitcoin, especially when there are lots of people who are using it. And I think some of the governments are supporting bitcoin, they just need to it more.

I think bitcoin has a great future and the era of currency maybe it's true. increasing interest everyone in bitcoin make bitcoin became famous around the world and the prospect of increasing bitcoin on year although this year there was a slight problem like transaction confirmation I think it's a gravel for bitcoin and the price of bitcoin fell last week certainly bitcoin prices will increase from the previous

It become easier to understand with some points.
Every increase of bitcoin is a good thing, except for unconfirmed and transaction fee.
But, I agree that Bitcoin ATMs isn't optimal as people prefer to purchase/transact online, moreover if bitcoin ATMs has higher exchange rate than average price/fee.
The best achievement of bitcoin in 2017 must be pass through $1000 wall and reach $2000 or at least $1500 consider as good price.
However, bitcoin problem regarding the block size limit and unconfirmed transaction should be resolved as soon as possible to attract more adopters and merchants.

For me the best achievement would be to solve the transaction delay issue somehow without a hardfork, which could destabilize the currency, creating a more serious problem than the transaction delays. Consequently, I believe it this happens, the price would increase as well, maybe reaching the $1500, or very luckly $2000.

The best achievement of bitcoin in 2017 must be pass through $1000 wall and reach $2000 or at least $1500 consider as good price.
However, bitcoin problem regarding the block size limit and unconfirmed transaction should be resolved as soon as possible to attract more adopters and merchants.
I think bitcoin has a great future and the era of currency maybe it's true. increasing interest everyone in bitcoin make bitcoin became famous around the world and the prospect of increasing bitcoin on year although this year there was a slight problem like transaction confirmation I think it's a gravel for bitcoin and the price of bitcoin fell last week certainly bitcoin prices will increase from the previous

Yes the price did double this year but so did the chance of hard fork by BTU. Bitcoin progressed really good in the begging of the year but in the pat month because of the hard fork rumours and many people not exactly what it is, a lot of people dumped bitcoin for ETH or other altcoins. Many traders also withdrew from bitcoin until the hard fork situation resolves. So there was both a upside and downside so far in this year.

I don't think that dump would destroy bitcoin. Before when it is approaching $1000 it suddenly drops into nearly $600. But it survives. Now it approaches $1400 then drops in $970. I think it is just normal that every time bitcoin is approaching to surpass its peak, the whales are dumping it to earn profit. For me, I am taking it as a great opportunity to stock my bitcoin at a low price and wait for its price to stabilize again. Then sell. I doubt bitcoin will be destroyed just by BTU.

The dump and pump are just normal but if you read between the lines you will understand that everything was just made to make a panic.
Check the trend and know where we are now, we have seen how unstable this market but we are still at $1,000.

I think this year bitcoin is still striving to aim higher even if there is BTU and Hardfork. I will still use bitcoin, Its been many years that have passed but bitcoin is still here. They say BTU will Launch in April but still I'm not giving up on bitcoin, Still Thousands  of people are using it. BTC will always progress and grow. Have faith guys

When i was trying to draw a trend line and checking the candle stick patterns i can see that its on downtrend which we are preferring on technical analysis but prices would be really unpredictable because anytime it would pump and theres a time would dip because there are unexpected things does really happen.

I think bitcoin has not progressed a lot in the last week of march .the price has slowed down and there is not so hike in the price till now .well i guess it is the best time to buy bitcoins and we can see the price hike in the 1 st week of april.

Actually, bitcoin really good this year, we have thousand per bitcoin unlike last year we only have 3 digits. So totally bitcoin is on its great progress.

Bitcoin may be in a much better situation by the end of the year, it will all depend on how developers, miners and users will come to a consensus to resolve the scaling issue. From what I've learned so far, both sides of the debate have good points, but thinking in the long run, the best solution would SegWit implementation. Besides allowing LN, this solves the malleability problem. If necessary, the size of the block could be increased later.

in 2017 the highest price in the history of bitcoin occur. This especially new beginning of the year. certainly in a few months and then perhaps in the middle or the end of the year the price will be much higher

Bitcoin has been on a rollercoaster ride since 2017 began. We were enjoying continuous surges during the first two months and some steep declines in the last few weeks. There are talks of an impending hard fork which adds to the FUD and the volatility of the price. I think this is going to last a while and we can expect that the price continues to swing up and down as long as there’s no real solution to what we are experiencing right now.

Bitcoin continues to raise it's value in the market. It has been in the first place among other alt coins. We trust bitcoin so much therefore I think it will continue growing this year.

I agree. People are now get attached to bitcoin, they are already investing on it. People earn a little more tjan they are earning in their current work.I hope that bitcoin will increase its value more, for me to save a lot.

Yes it is good on bitcoin's price, but the problem on block size of bitcoin is still not finish and still debating without ending
the comunity of bitcoin will become two bitcoin unlimited and bitcoin core, if the bitcoin hard fork be done in 2017
except price of bitcoin is going up bitcoin hard fork will become progress in 2017 I guess.

I hope the price of bitcoin as 2016, can take up to 4-fold. I hope the years also can be just the end of the year the price reach $4000 at the end of the year.

The whole market of cryptocurrencies is becoming the target of investors. I don't think of average people, but of professional brokers.
There are pumps and drops everywhere, but bitcoin still seems to be relatively stable because of its large market capitalization.
Somehow I fear that is not holding for ever.
My hope is that the popularity of bitcoin and the growth from being used as a payment system will give bitcoin the strength not to be targeted by the bump-dumpers.

I agree buying bitcoin on BTM is expensive. I saw one user here complained about it where he bought like 0.1btc and paid $130 for it but he mentioned that the prices on coindesk were at $1100 during that time, so the BTM already made a $20 profit with that single transaction.

Yes i am also  still supporting it despite of the low price, and BTC / BTU Drama and yes those were the big whales around who get their profits of their stocks we cannot blame them, maybe they are in need  :o

Exactly, the rising and lowing of the price of the bitcoin is normal maybe the right word is the peak and crashing of bitcoin because it totally drop down but we can see how people survive the bitcoin.

The rising and falling of prices may be normal,  but the events causing the falls sure aren't.  Bitcoin will take more than time to recover, it'll take actual action.

2017 is the most volatile year of bitcoin, although it is not a big fluctuation, its value has not changed too much, but somehow has shown its instability. Beside that instability, it shows stability and extreme development, the value of bitcoin goes up to its peak and lasts a long time. Bitcoin has shown us its value, its nice and wonderful. Although btc is in trouble and branched out, its value is still maintained, so I believe the hardfork will end up with nice results for bitcoin.

The increase and decrease in the price is common nature of bitcoin. At some point it gains strength and stabilizes to get fixed to the particular value for a long time. Bitcoin is progressing, an confirmation for it is the overcoming of price fall steep to a value less than $950.

Actually mate, it is about a year 2017. But then as march goes, it was rough because of some drop down price yet it is now reaching its peak again, striving to get high again. So it means it is on progress.

Sezchas it is difficult to talk about progress. We see that the price of bitcoin rises a little, but then goes down again. This is very unpleasant. And this will continue until the rumors about the fork

Hardfork will cause bitcoin to split into btc and btu. BTU will become an altcoin and many bitcoin exchanges have agreed that they will only accept core bitcoin rather than bus hardforked bitcoin. But even though there will be a split that will occur Japans declaration that they will launch the use of bitcoin as a form of payment in their country will pull the price of bitcoin instead of going down.

I really do not like the fact that the plug will lower the price. And I'm not sure that thanks to Japan it will be possible to stabilize the price to the level at which it is now.
I hope that the fork will not be

yup! me too are hoping that the fork will not end up dividing bitcoin value cause it will break every ones heart at least the value has been stabilize and does not end up going back down again, I think we can surely make a move by bringing bitcoin into some friends or introducing it to anyone you know spread the knowledge of bitcoin or something like that!

I beleive bitcoin will really progress in 2017, as day by day bitcoin has been increasing its adoption and growth towards the development. Bitcoin atm is a nice idea and many are hoping this to happen. If this happen many users will love to adopt its development.

to me  i think this year will be ore favorable for bitcoin, as we can see from the very start of 2017 that the price of bitcoin is increasing continously and hope that that bitcoin price will cross 2000 USD level in this year.

The value of bitcoin goes up to its peak and lasts a long time. Bitcoin has shown us its value, its nice and wonderful. Although btc is in trouble and branched out, its value is still maintained, so I believe the hardfork will end up with nice results for bitcoin.Actually mate, it is about a year 2017. But then as march goes, it was rough because of some drop down price yet it is now reaching its peak again, striving to get high again. So it means it is on progress.

Bitcoin stil with good value with the split that is about to happen this year. Even with those there is a good value of bitcoin, i remember bitcoin at 600 dollars last year and then 800, 1000 dollars sound a good and fair ammount knowing what is going on at bitcoin at the moment.
Altcoins are getting a lot attention since the split of bitcoin, i dont know if is the way to market say they do need some altcoin to replace bitcoin, or its because they dont wanna to wait with their bitcoin for the results .

I don't know if the possible fork will be good for bitcoin or not, because both parties have their own pros and cons. I think the better would be to work out the decision about the fork asap, because it affects the price now. Some people buying back fiat because of the rumours of the hard fork, so we need to have a clear view as soon as possible. Any advice in this situation is only speculation. A quick decision would help bitcoin the most now. If this uncertain situation will last long, that would just drop the prices, and would only frighten away the possible investors (especially the bigger ones).

BU is looking less and less plausible by the day, and essentially the pools that are expressing an interest in changing up the blockchain and moving to something that scales the blocksize are choosing Segwit over BU right now. The only realistic hard fork we can be seeing is a change to Segwit, and even that might take a while before anything really starts rolling.

That is to optimistic, price can`t reach 4000$ until the end of the year. Staying on +1000$ is good for now, we saw that bitcoin can hold +1200$ for some time, and until this year reasonable is to predict price around 1500$. I don`t say that price can`t be higher, I always expect surprise when I think about bitcoin price, I just say that steady grow until the end of the year will be good for community, much better then some crazy pump.

In my point of view I think that this year is going to be rough for bitcoin, I know that It seems that is going to do very well since it started at a very good value earlier, but with the problems that are popping up and the transaction becoming slower and fees are getting higher this is driving people crazy and they are quitting bitcoin, and I think if this persist we might see a huge drop.

i agree as long as prices keep going up for bitcoin it will receive heated up attention from critics and national monetary bodies

especially for a year like 2017 where price records were broken and more legal battles are still to be fought as they try to establish were bitcoin fits. I believe it will come out top of this

especially when transaction speeds are fixed, we should expect more bitcoin use from there.

  I think this year will be ore favorable for bitcoin, as we can see from the very start of 2017 that the price of bitcoin is increasing continously and hope that that bitcoin price will cross 2000 USD level in this year.2017 is the most volatile year of bitcoin, although it is not a big fluctuation, its value has not changed too much, but somehow has shown its instability. Beside that instability, it shows stability and extreme development, the value of bitcoin goes up to its peak and lasts a long time. Bitcoin has shown us its value, its nice and wonderful. Although btc is in trouble and branched out, its value is still maintained

People are more and more turning towards altcoins which worries me the most, I too have invested in some altcoins but still my main crypto currency will always be Bitcoin.
If we get through the problems of transaction delay and transaction fees then I think there is a bright future for Bitcoin as well as to us.

Transaction delay problem is only a problem if people want to use bitcoin as an electronic currency, and do the everyday money transactions with it. In this case the delay is a real problem and must have a fix for it as soon as possible.
If bitcoin will be like an electronic gold (to invest in it and it only should hold the value or rise it slowly), in that case the transaction delays are more or less acceptable, so there's no need for a prompt fix.
But in the last situation, we need something (altcoin, etc.) to do the everyday transactions with (e.g. to share the cost of the Saturday night beers with friends, without cash, bank card, etc)
I hope we'll have the answer soon which is the way forward...

It is for sure right now that the bitcoin is facing some challenging problems that are threatening its progress and its good reputation, and the altcoins are taking this opportunity to catch up, so we can’t just sit back relax and hope for thing to get fixed by its own we need to do something here, we need to call out these miners who are controlling every transaction and taking so much fees.

yeah bitcoin will be more favorable and bitcoin is really increasing its price to higher value everyday and 2017 is luckiest year for bitcoin and i am also hope that bitcoin will be cross it price to 2000 USD.

All year is best for bitcoin but in this year reach the highest valur of bitcoin. 2000 dollar is not impossible for bitcoin and we should continue to believed that every year the progress of bitcoin will bring us much better profit.

Yes, I believe that bitcoin price will increase more this year maybe as you said 2000$ in the end of this year. I hope it cross this barrier. It would be awesome.
Year by year bitcoin will be more powerfull. I mean here the price. so i think it is intersting when we invest in bitcoin.

And whats worse is some problems are until now left unsolved for years but thankfully, there are also many improvements so we can conclude that there is a balance between the positive and negative sides on bitcoin .

People investing towards altcoins doesn't mean they will abandon bitcoin, They are just considering the possibilities . Watching the market, Altcoins indeed have a promising future, Some of them even have features that the bitcoins doesn't have . Most people who buy alts are traders with bitcoin as their main cryptocurrency so its is actually a good thing somehow to keep bitcoin circulating .

Yes all of you say i true on what is happening on bitcoin this year. But the progress in bitcoin is not so surprising because we all know that the support of the community who use bitcoin on the daily bases increase these year resulting to the demand to hit the highest peek regarding on the stock of bitcoin so no doubt the bitcoin will progress this year. I am looking forward for the problems which may cause down on the system of bitcoin and how the developers will solved  the issue.

I really hope that the developers will reach an agreement. And I do not want a split. For bitcoin, 2017 will be a good year, if there is no split

i agree with this and i am sure that in future, bitcoin will be used by more people and we can see that in real life, bitcoin can be used as an option to buy something. but i think its really difficult to break the USD $2000 in this year, as we can see that the highest price that bitcoin can reach is $13xx but we can still hope that this year, bitcoin price will break more than $13xx again.

I dont think anyone is quitting bitcoins on because of TX fee increase. There is no big problem except transaction confirmation taking time due to blockchain block size and that too is under observations and will come out with a solution soon.

I will never leave the bitcoin community because of the high commissions on the transaction. I like to use bitcoin. But I still hope that the system will remain the same as we all are used to

bitcoin is really increasing its price too much faster and bitcoin more improve its price in 2017 and a lot of people adopting bitcoin for the future because all people know that bitcoin will increase its price to 2000$.

Bitcoins will do VERY well this year!  8)

Bitcoin adoption among big companies decreased: Dell, Fiverr or even Humble Bundle are not accepting bitcoin payments.
It will create huge possibilities for 'faster and cheaper altcoins': Ethereum is growing, they will have Raiden implemented  soon, it will enable them to process payments on similar scale than Visa and MasterCard.
Meanwhile bitcoin has... huge fees and long confirmation times.

Since we touch and stay back in 4 digit i think we will experience more slow movement these coming months due to many bad news we are heard. Like Bu fork.. or if segwit wins maybe there is more advantage or more price increased.

yeah bitcoin will be get more successful in this year because a huge number of people are joining bitcoin and bitcoin will getting more popularity in this year. 

yes i also think so that bitcoin will remain one of the main currency of the world. and in 2017 bitcoin will also get more and more success.

Bitcoin is doing extremely well this year, although there is some bump about the scaling issue, but the improvement in 2017 is great, the user keep on increasing the popularity keep on adding, and there is some movie mentioning about bitcoin, and bitcoin ever made headline news in some country, I am so optimistic that bitcoin will do wonderfully in the future

Every year bitcoin is getting better and as the price starts to drop for the last weeks. Now the price seems to be back again and it's now getting higher again and able to reach $1,100. I do believe that the price will get up high again and more people will start to realize that core bitcoin will always be the most preferred crypto.

Everyone think positive about bitcoin. Because it is new and latest creative thing and also it is belong to money. But it is crypto currency, it give us a lot of facilities, not only for earning wise, even we use it where we want to use.  No doubt every new year will be great for bitcoin. 

IMO, bitcoin will keep increase until the end of 2017 as bitcoin demand keep larger than before.
For now, I'm keep invest 10% of my main salary every month into bitcoin since I trust bitcoin over a gold recently


Bitcoin have their own way to make profit because they are unique

I think bitcoin has good prospects in the beginning of 2017 proved bitcoin prices rose to $ 1,000 or more, this is a good start for the development and progress in the future bitcoin

Bitcoin 2017 year has been great gaining momentum from the previous year. Getting ATH this year is an accomplishment. Experienced a lot of ups and downs, but still bitcoin is standing. Their's still a major roadblock ahead, which is the scaling issue. Debate has been going on, but I hope when the dust settles, we will see bitcoin ecosystem to flourish more. We are not even half of the year, but the price of bitcoin is looking good. We all hope that the price will continue to rise so that another ATH will be achieved at the end of the year.

Each year it gains not just momentum but continual dominant establishment. And established globally, I mean even in this forum, so many from Philippines, Indonesia, India, USA, Europe, Africa here. Many trades in China, Russia, South America as well. That is global establishment which continues to get stronger.

Bitcoin has emerged as the king of all asset classes for store of value. No other asset can touch it, not Stocks, not Gold, not Real Estate, not Bonds.

Additionally no altcoin can ever touch Bitcoin as store of value because no one will ever trust that altcoin's organizer of its premine "fairness" and Bitcoin has been already established around the GLOBE for many years.

There is power in Bitcoin's simple transmission via a communications channel to another country without requiring an intermediary. The full combination of decentralized enforced by small blocksize, immutable, cryptographically secured, established for nearly a decade, and scarce in supply is what makes it beautiful and strong.

Bitcoin cannot be transformed into worthless, expendible fiat or trashcash.
Scaling can be introduced to Bitcoin without touching bitcoins code and simply using one or many 3rd party intermediaries. Even trash cash has a vast network of such things like Visa network or Mastercard Network. The bitcoin community is much smarter than either of these networks, so wait and see.

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Main currency of the world? Yes, it is a worldwide currency because it is a crypto currency but I don't think that bitcoin is included to the main currency of the world. How many are using bitcoin as of now? Due to the low number of people that uses bitcoin, I doubt it being a main currency worldwide. Although I agree that bitcoin is continuously progressing but bitcoin as a main currency of the world (today), it's a no for me.

It has been awesome so far,quite a lot of good news surrounding BTC,although there is a debate between BTC and BTU and which is better,I think that as for now the logic choice has been made and BTC is on a good track

Choice between bitcoin and a bugged clone shouldn't be a problem but that doesn't mean that bitcoin dev don't have to improve it.
Anyway the progression this year is quite good and we can see a new records

I would comment the same thing because the price is the proof that there is a little bit of a demand in the whole Bitcoin Supply. Since people want Bitcoins that much there must be a logical reason why they do. The clients that have Bitcoin Wallets installed on it and feature the whole Bitcoin Blockchain shows that there is also a team of people working on making Bitcoin something better for the people that use it.

It is good to hear that there are some countries where bitcoin is really welcome and accepted like in Europe, especially they've bulid a lot of bitcoin ATM machine to their different location there. Here in my country we only have 1 Bitcoin ATM machine and located at civilized place. I do believed bitcoin will never be stop by anyone to take off it will surely continuously in progress soon :D

i think its not just in europe, because japan its ready to use bitcoin as payment and i think the government is accepting bitcoin and allow people to use bitcoin in every place in japan. i hope that in europe and japan will be ATM machine that we can use so we can use it directly to buy and sell our bitcoin.

I beleive bitcoin will be still successful this year 2017. Because of its adoption in any countries and users will increase, more attracts users. Bitcoin will be its leading in any online currency.

Yesterday bitcoin had collapsed after the results of SEC decision and issue of bitcoin unlimited back sticking out, the price had been below 1000 usd, but this is gradually recovered due to news of bitcoin offroad from japan and increased trading volume in arab peninsula. I am sure bitcoin will continue to rise until the end of this year even though it is not above 2000 usd.

It seems to me that bitcoin will grow in price and progress every year more and more.

I agree with others. Yes, bitcoin will get more users this year. Its price will increase as there will be increase in demand. All I can say is bitcoin is here to stay. It will touch the mark of $2000 by the end of this year.

It may increase, but it will not spike, the steps are even and slow to make it more stable and safer. I believe it.

I like a slow increase pace is healthy for the coin. Not spikes to 1 or 3k higher it will cause a lot of panic on market.

That has a very high probability since bitcoin's trend is to increase every year, even every month or day. Even though bitcoin's value decreases, the majority of its trend is upward. It will not increase just this year but also the following year and the year after that. Bitcoin has a very bright future and will likely to increase more over time.

Bitcoin is deflationary, as long as demand stays the same, the coins will continue to rise in value. Thats why a deflationary currency is terrible for countries to run on..

Majority of users are positive that the price of bitcoin will touch $2k in this year and may be that is possible at the end of the year and for the same reason people are holding their coins so that they can sell at that price to earn maximum profits.

You can't fully predits whether it will spike or not. I could easily see it spike after some big news, like segwit activating for example.
Just look at what happend to the price of Litecoin lately, I'd call that a spike for sure.

Bitcoin will be grow up day by day that is expected on the demand of it's value. but it's not constant a marginal  point like $2000, can be (+or -) $2000.
even though bitcoin may hit in the end of this year.

I am seeing a hole other trend btw.

https://i.imgur.com/DyaEQfB.png

More money are getting pumped into alts global and more then 500 to 700 mil $ enters the crypto market every day currently pretty crazy.

There is much more going on currently. I have never seen this before.

I do not count out bitcoin at all. Its the trend that people are slowly pumping btc and usd into alts. Many people have also splitted their investments to wait off sigwit or unlimited.

I am not surprised by this at all. In order to avoid a potential damaging situation where your holdings might receive a massive blow, people simply hedge the asset in question. It's completely normal as it is happening in the non crypto industry as well. In this case the danger for people is that they use altcoins to hedge Bitcoin, and more that their position into certain altcoins come at a very high price, literally.

Bitcoin has already started to move up in a positive direction and we can expect the same in coming months too and I have a belief that bitcoin will cross the price of 2000 usd by the end of the year as every user is hoping for the same.

The beauty of bitcoin is that the demand does not stay the same, rather it is increaseing, there is even a speculation of exponential growth of Bitcoin demand making bitcoin price to swell up to half a million dollar.  Kinda too much but it would be great if it happen.

In every year the bitcoin is always upgrading. I think in this year 2017 the bitcoin will can use in any kind of transaction because it will have a good result to all bitcoin user and they can pay all there payment using bitcoin. Bitcoin always upgrading their system to avoid all hackers to hack there system and no one’s will try to destroy it.I guess bitcoin will increase its price in this year 2017.

bitcoin has a lot of development in 2017, everyone has an account about bitcoin, only people who do not have atm now do not have bitcoin, so bitcoin ssangat berhaarga at this time

The progress of the bitcoin in this year is really good. In this year, many countries legalize the bitcoin and accepted in paying in some transaction. I know that next year the bitcoin will have more good progress.

I'm happy to hear bitcoin soar, hopefully in the next year bitcoin is more global and beat it all so everyone uses bitcoin as a future savings

Bitcoin first appeared in 2009, the creation of a computer programmer. Since that time, bitcoin has faced every issue a cryptocurrency can imagine and it has emerged from each obstacle — stronger and better, proving to everyone time and again why it has been deemed as the uncrowned king of the cryptoworld. With Bitcoin crossing the $4000 mark today we felt it was imperative to look into the factors that has led to such an exponential growth, and thus this article about Bitcoin’s 2017 developmental journey ensued. Its value is increasing day by day.

       

In 2017 Bitcoins value has grown significantly due to the trade volume resulted by the geopolitical risk present to the global economy. So many financial advisors version bitcoin is a good investment.Bitcoins value has been reflected high for the last seven month. Finally its demand and supply has been increased and ultimately the bitcoin price also has increased considerably.

This is the beginning. 2017 is the start of the popularity of bitcoins around the world and can not help it. In fact, here are many of us who use bitcoins. They are profitable and young people are having the same interest as it is. So we expect that in the next few years the price of bitcoins will be higher. And the more it becomes known to people

2017 was a great year for BTC. I expect more growth within the few upcoming years

It seems that in the year 2017 bitcoin increasingly shows a positive value. The higher bitcoin transaction traffic in some countries indicates bitcoin becomes more desirable than ever. I expect bitcoin in 2018 to get better and better.

And this is very good actually. Such news can not but rejoice, especially those who invest in bitcoins in longevity. Despite the jumping news background, and especially the last month connected with news from China, digital gold shows adequate behavior, updates the bottom, preparing to conquer new peaks. So, if someone doubts whether it is worth buying bitcoin now, be assured of you!

  Like many others I joined this year when bitcoin price was higher then $1000. What we saw this years can not
be described in few lines, price increase is just fruits on the top. Bitcoin is accepted in few countries and I think
that will be the only the start, this year will be remembered as year when bitcoin is legalized for the first time.
   Not just that, price increase, acceptance in the world, popularity, hard fork and splitting the chain are just
small part of bitcoin world but important one. And this year is just the beginning, better years will come I am
positive about it, bitcoin world is growing every year more.

in 2017 bitcoin experienced a significant price increase in a few months the price has increased a lot.

The price now showed nice signs of peaking soon as it's really been rising so far and in a few week we can see the $5000 again. This progress will take so long, maybe this year end period is a very crucial stage of bitcoin. Everyone might be excited for this changes in a few wees, because price will surge again as expected by other positive speculations; that's why investors who seemed to be more observant and quick thinkers will now opting to prepare their funds for it.

Most people join this year, this is what I understood from my readings, I joined several years ago by 1 btc, at that time it was 600USD, I was very sad to not invest bitcoins at that time now I wish I were rich. Never too late,  still waiting a big drop to invest again. This year it increased a lot like 400% compared to 6-7 months before price level this is incredible. It is like an advertisement when people aware of the gain on this than so many people took effect and so many still waiting the drop to get in to the next station as mean either.

Bitcoin was the first in 2008, though it has increased a lot in 2017. Which is a touch of a lot It's a great role to play for the regular running of the market. Looking forward to seeing more signs in the future.

If it is about china then they are just reducing scammer that’s why they are making news they want to stop scammers that’s why so I would like to say  that chineese people still interested in bitcoin and they cannot banned bitcoin so ignore news etc keep invest.

Don't forget segwit.

I agree with you. some time ago I also read newspapers that Amazon is going to start implementing payment options with bitcoin, I think that is a very good progress where we know that amazon is a very famous website and visited hundreds of thousands of visitors per day. with the use bitcoin as one of the payment options, I think it will increase the value of bitcoin in the future.

a remarkable advancement, at a price of 1 btc much higher with the old one, I do not regret knowing him now and want to be really serious about bitcointalk.

Bitcoin is increasingly yearly so it's a good investment and we can say that this is the best investment. And so far I haven't seen an investment that is like bitcoin in real life.

You mean increasing monthly  ;)
In few months bitcoin price made a long jump apart lately it is kinda stucked around  $35xx after a huge jump to nearly $5k. Actually it is around $39xx but I think that passing the $4k barrier again is a matter of time

Can't agree at all, each year bitcoin is more widely used in darknet and for illegal activities, more mixers are opening (don't say that people use it for legal fund). This year was good with it's price rise, bitcoin is better with current price. But a little bit sad fact is that china bans bitcoin exchangers, it's sad because it happened very quickly, on another hand I am neutral here.
I think next year we will see more bitcoin ATM's.

Monthly? Somehow it is increasing but not literally it's increasing and for this month we have seen it decreasing instead. It was now at $3,900 and there are so many good things to come for those people that are keep on investing in bitcoin. And we are aware that there's always a new country that started to adopt bitcoin and that's going to be a very good thing as the demand will be getting high again.

moment very fantastic moment of bitcoin progress now and I know it since bitcoin is still $95 until now bitcoin has reached $3900 bitcoin development every minute goes so incredible that many of us all like this digital currency, over time bitcoin will reach $10000 I am sure it will definitely be achieved..

If price was 10k at 2018 it's will be nice

I also think that an be achieved, but never in 2017. There is just no time for that, unless some big country comes forward and states that he it will replace conventional money for BTC, and that of course will not happen. I think it's possible for BTC to reach $10k in 2018, but not on 2017. I do hope that we can still reach a new high before the end of the year, but let's see what happens.

I don't really think bitcoin is that widely being used for illegal purposes. We can check the dollar and Euro currencies, I bet they're used in illegal activities 1000x more than bitcoin.

There was a lot of progress this year especially with lower transaction fees.

Would like to add up that for the first time such quick fluctuations were seen with bitcoins this year. A lot of new exchanges have grown big. I think bitcoin is growing towards the correct direction so far.

Bitcoin has progressed a lot as compared to it was first introduced, now It worth nearly equal to 4000USD, now I is the most popular strong and precious coin of the time and now it is the most trustable investment in the world and everybody wants to invests in it just because of its progress, an in 2017 it is revolutionary and will be declared as global currency soon.

bitcoin for this year has increased very rapidly.
this is very interesting because everyone wants to benefit from bitcoin.
so the development of bitcoin is great and maybe for the future bitcoin will be more popular and bitcoin transactions are increasing its users.

2017 is very important year for BTC,not only for significant rise of price,but also much much more people are ready to adopt,invest ... at cetera 
Here,locally in my little country -Georgia (not state in USA)  enthusiasts try to "spread the word" about crypto as new possibility, as money of future

Well, The Progress of Bitcoin is so really awesome,
Even thou eventually there banning of ICO, in some countries like CHINA, South Korea,
but still Bitcoin is not disappointing Bitcoiners,

especially Traders, I think now is there time to shine, Why? because The More The bitcoin
goes up and Down, The Biggest gain they will Have.

Still, Bitcoin price is Going up. have almost 3 months Left Before 2017 ends.

For me, this year was actually full of surprises, especially the second half which is still in progress. These months were very thrilling and the value gain that bitcoin showed us earlier was super stunning. It really did put on a good show and the great news is it is not done yet. Indeed, masses are getting attracted towards digital gold and it is grabbing fame gradually.

The beauty of bitcoin is that the demand does not stay the same, rather it is increasing, there is even a speculation of exponential growth of Bitcoin demand making bitcoin price to swell up to half a million dollar. 

I have read a few whitepapers and research upcoming ICOs and there is one who really caught my attention. Most of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have nothing behind them but Propthereum.io are an asset back cryptocurrency with potentially great coin appreciation. Definitely one you should check out for!

You can call 2017 as the year of Bitcoin, We have been experiencing a large amount of price value in this year. At the beginning of this year, the price of Bitcoin was almost near about $1500 but at the end of 2017, we have got almost $6000. so that is huge. Not only that but also Blockchain has made a tremendous impact in the payment system. So it can be predicted that Bitcoin along with Cryptocurrency will dominate in the monetary world.

I agree with you sir, in our country most people are now using bitcoin than the recent years, it is because it televise in our country. I remember when it is reported on TV that there is a person who tell how Bitcoin change her life and she told to the viewers that she can earn enough to sustain her own needs, I was feel amaze because of that, now my friends and my classmates will totally believe in me that what I told to them was right and not wrong. It shows that nowadays Bitcoin is now making a progress which means if people will know this kind of currency the bitcoin will growth and got a chance to increase more than we expected.

No doubt the year 2017 has been one of the best for the blockchain technology and bitcoin particularly as it has grown in value 6 times more than it was in 2016.

I think we are going to remember 2017 as the year things changed in bitcoin, as the year in which bitcoin did not looked back anymore and it grew in price in a way we have never seen before.

i am agree with you and we will remember that in 2017 is the best year for bitcoin because in this year, the bitcoin price is jump to high and many people is amaze about this. I think we still have a big chance to see bitcoin price is increase more than now, I am still want to save my bitcoin for another high price and I think we can sell it when the price is reach more than $7500 after the fork. but if we are in the fork, there will be a down for a while for the price but it will come back to increase again.

Well I think 2017 was the lucky year for bitcoin because in this year users and countries have increased than last year although bitcoin also face such a challenges like banned by some countries but bitcoin is till so popular and strong than before and I’m sure that next year bitcoin will be more strong and power full with more extra users.

in 2017 this is a lot of change in bitcoin from the price that keeps jumping there is also the price down in bitcoin ... it is very memotifasi bounty hunter to play bitcoin ... and let us not be discouraged if the change happens ... all there is a period and the time to change ....

Yes it is very good for the development of the bitcoin it will many who joined in the bitcoin, investment will be growing rapidly but sometimes there are still countries that do not agree with transactions that do in fact extremely bitcoin bitcoin provides convenience for those who want to join. Yes but it will likely happen disability system but we get along together to fix it. We are in the year 2017 now and see progress that we can feel the moment against bitcoin

The first part of the year was about altcoins and many began to question the strength of bitcoin but the second part of the year everything has been about bitcoin and its amazing recovery of its dominance in the market, lets see what the next year is about.

This year bitcoin get builds significant, we can enjoy some changes bitcoin, one of them the exchange rate changes are fairly stable, with the changes that are stable enough we can get great benefits. in addition the user bitcoin also experienced an increase that will continue to increase as the year's.

which I know Bitcoin is making great progress in 2017, this is where bitcoin passes 1000 $ (dollars) and there are so many interesting events going on, it has proved that bitcoin is in a fast growing state, so many people start using and investing in bitcoin , so Bitcoin makes a great process in 2017 hopefully will continue to grow in the future, and more people who are interested, and growing

At the eleventh hour unexpetcdly increases people are using bitcoin in 2017.This is famandous progress in bitcoin 2017.I am sure that bitcoin will power in future.