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2017 clearly was a turning period for Bitcoin with all the events from the massive growth to the latest attack on Bitcoin.
The massive growth from $1000 to $7000 this years was a great achievement fro BTC. Then came the ban of ICOs in china followed by shutting down of Bitcoin exchanges. Next were the forks started by Bitcoin cash, BTG, Segwit2x(although was suspended). Then the news that CME group would be listing BTC futures. Now the attack on BTC with a huge load of transactions because the miners switched to BCH.
All of this was were some huge movements in the crypto world. There is exactly 1.5 month left for the year to end. Can we expect more such events or the is it over and we can finally see some peace around here. BTC hitting $10k would be the next big news for me.

Indeed it was a crazy year for Bitcoin. According to me the positive ones were way better than the negative ones. 7x times the capital within one year is really a huge achievement. I just hope BTC increases with the same rate and crosses $10k soon.

For bitcoin 2017 was a great year. I came to bitcoin world in April of this year when the price was 1100-1300$. But with 2month the price gone to 2000$, & after 4months the price gone to 4000$. Then everybody know the rest. It hits 7000$. I think bitcoin will hit 11000$ with in january,2018. Good luck for the new year bitcoin. ;) And we should enjoy the era of crypto currency.

What a year indeed! Im still very new to the crypto world but its been a roller coaster so far and tracking the BTC prices has been an event in itself! Ive paid a lot of attention since around June time, and kicking myself for not lumping in on it then! Lives and learns I suppose.

I think, with Segwit2X delayed/cancelled, lots of people who only bought in - to take advantage of the "free money" to be dished out - will be selling their positions, or rather that has happened over the weekend to some extent.

Today and right now we are back over the $7k mark and I reckon we will hit $8k without too many problems before the end of the year.

Its a finish line that holds lots of importance for people balancing the books and showing a tidy year end profit and growth - question is does that mean people will HODL or people will sell? Either way I see $8k coming very soon, and in 2018 Id be very surprised if we didnt see further exponential growth.

Is anyone on here hedging? Anyone had fear drive them to sell in the dip over the weekend? My movements are tiny but I did manage to do well out of the fluctuations, however the transaction times and fees have been awful.

Question - if miners tend to stay away from BTC in the coming months, would the Bitcoin Core Team look to make changes to the difficulty to lure miners back?
Long transaction times and huge fees are not enticing for those sitting on the fence, and I think adoption by the masses is what will keep the drive going behind the prices.

ICOs ban in China and what happened to exchanges, the fork cancellation, problem in transactions confirmation and many other things. None of them caused bitcoin to lose its fans. After those events and confirmation problem which seems that is solving, more people will believe bitcoon and it will cause the price to rise very much.

The storm is over. The banned issue has passed and people who have lost hope have risen from the storm. Now one page will be opened and this will give new hope to our few investments in bitcoins. The 10,000 $ BTC is approaching. And this set will no longer be restricted because bitcoins are still the ones foremost. We expect this price to be announced in the coming days.

I think we may have a cooling off period now until after New ayear. When I say cooling off period I mean a period of stability in price which is never a bad thing.

10k$ is just an arbitrary number which doesn't signify anything special just like 1k, 2k or 5k were. Price will probably stay there for a while since people do like round numbers but i'm quite sure it will move on after some time.

Whatever has happen has already happen now its past and bitcoin has seen all that phase with all his strength now its time enjoy good phase and a period of stability in terms of both price and news.As far as 10K is concern even i think its just a number which bitcoin can achieve anytime.

The global acceptance of Bitcoin has started this year from financial giants of Wall Street to banks in Singapore. I am glad bitcoin is now being taken seriously at global economic and financial landscape. 2018 will indeed be a better year with major countries and institutions jumping in Bitcoin increasing its global popularity and acceptance.

Reagrding remaining 1.5 months of this year, I don't think any major news will be there leaving CME group actually starting bitcoin futures. This gonna boost the price definitely and Bitcoin might touch $9k by the end of the year. Leaving it, some minor manipulation by whales might follow as recently done in BCH. But at end predicting anything in Cryptocurrency market is worthless. Anything can happen anywhere.

Even though I know, what you are trying to tell from a mathematical point of view, I have to disagree on the "arbitrary number".
Milestones such as $100, $1000 or $10,000 are significant and as we are all humans, we are influenced by the shift from a 4 to 5 digit number. As similiar to 2013/2014, when $1000 were achieved, I am sure that the media will report big time when $10k for BTC are hit. This again, will have an influence on the perception of bitcoin and its price development. Hence, $10k is nevertheless important. 

I think it is too premature to write of SegWit2X and also the Bitcoin Cash attacks. The people behind these attacks are not

just going to give up, because they invested a lot of time and money into these attacks. I predict a follow-up attack before the

end of this year. Let's just hope Core team can come up with counter measures before the tipping point is reached in this

whole saga.  >:(

This is certainly the era of forks - You have the Brexit fork to the EU, The Ruble fork for the Petro-dollar. A few Bitcoin forks, and there is still time for some more Bitcoin fork suggestions. I vote for 500k blocks, and faster block generation. :)

2017 is a very special year for Bitcoin and this year Bitcoin is up high and swaying, but bitcoin will always last, and the achievement of 10,000 $ / BTc will be a sweet note later this year.

I agree that it may not be over. If their goal is truly for Bitcoin Cash to steal the BTC name, they're definitely scheming or have a tiered plan. Core better not be asleep at the wheel.

1.5 months is a lifetime in crypto, so who knows! I'm anticipating we'll have a quite strong finish to the year at or near that $10k mark.

When I'm explain to my office friend about how good bitcoin really are , no one want to believe me at the first but after I'm show them bitcoin progress until now, they quite amaze and start to interest although they still afraid because my government still forbid bitcoin usage as main transaction.

But for me, just keep hold and Profit is on the way....

As we can see the price is back to $7000 and is growing up
Maybe at the end of 2018 the price can reach $8-9000
Many people selled their bitcoin to buy bitcoin cash, and now are selling their BCH to buy bitcoin again :D

The fact that people are creating so many forks out of bitcoin does not comfort me.
I am surprised to see so many malicious attacks from within the crypto world rather than governments.
Let's hope this trend does not continue.

Yes 2017 is great year for btc. I saw 900$ in this year now price is  over 7000$. I saw a news that another fork is coming in December. Thats mean again bitcoin price pump and again altcoins will dump.So again time to buy btc  ;)

Really , 2017 was full of surprises for Bitcoin community , I think we shall see more such events,  because , simply it's a crypto nature

I think that all the dust has started to settle down and the road is clear for bitcoin.Just progress is left.No more threat is found for bitcoin.So,we could expect bitcoin to move in bullish trend for the next 1.5 months.

Bitcoin has successfully faced all threats and has succeeded.It was a surprise for every one when bitcoin price immediately regained after its price fell due to china's ban.

Another shock was when BCH got pumped very high till $1,800 and bitcoin got dumped to $6,000.That was really a terrible experience in the history of bitcoin.

Another hard fork is expected next month resulting in a new coin bitcoin diamond.But its impact would not be like BCH and so,overall we could say that bitcoin is going to the moon for real.

This year till now being the most volatile compare to any years. From approx 1k in January it has reached all time high of 7800$ and at present at 7200$. What a year of return this has being if you would have just hold for this months you would have minted money if decent amount would have being invested in this cypto currency.

Hopefully in 2018, bitcoin gives a wonderful surprise.I expect the bitcoin price in 2018 will reach $ 11000,And altcoin can also rise to its original value.

I see micro money and electroneum on same level with repple

I agree altcoin had a really bad day in this end of year. Little increase in price after segwit2x cancelled but now it's in red again for most of them :-(

This year has been simply a success for Bitcoin. It rose in price rapidly, widened its business adoption and last but not least retained its community. Anticipated forks has been done while potentially risky (community-splitting) forks as s2x were delayed. We are looking to the bright future of Bitcoin and in my humble opinion we will see $10,000 price tag by February 2018.

BCC tries to annoy and they make a bit of a mess, initially they believe that Bitcoin has gone down, but passes quickly they come back to believe in Bitcoin, and by the end of this year let's enjoy $ 10,000 / BTC because they're back.

2018 will be a new year for Bitcoin and the future of it will always depend on us. Every year Bitcoin is growing its popularity reaching different kinds of people from different classes and all of them are benefiting from it. Right now what I want to see in 2018 is not in Bitcoin itself but the consumers and producers accepting it. This will make Bitcoin more look like a currency rather than some kind of investment vehicle if it will be widely accepted it is because of the help of the government supporting Bitcoin in the future.

Indeed this year has been overwhelming for Bitcoin and other cryptos. Things are finally settling down now.
The left over days might go in peace but nothing is ever accurate in crypto ;D Things might just blow up at the end.
I do hope the bullish movement starts now and BTC hitting $10k would turn everybody happy and might really give a Happy New Year to the crypto users. LOL, this might be the perfect ending for the BTC 2017 story.

I will be expecting more of course. Other than Bitcoin hitting 10,000$ each, I would be expecting something more, like more countries making Bitcoin legal as a way of transferring funds or More E-commerce that accepts Bitcoin. It would be awesome if all of this happens.

First of all learn how to write the proper names of currencies before you post in this forum. The quality of shitposting in this forum is getting worse day by day.


Let me make it clear. BCC is the ticker for bitconnect. It is a clear ponzi scheme that has been proven as a ponzi by the reputed members of this forum. Bitcoin Cash ticker is BCH. Also what you are talking about was some FUD that was spread in the reddit channels about bitcoin cash being the real bitcoin. Many people bought into that fake news and bought BCH pumping the price. This was obviously done by the whales who dumped their BCH and made some money.

More countries accepting bitcoin? Most of them do and very few countries whose economies are too low has banned bitcoin. E-commerce giants accepting bitcoin? Give me a break from that fake news. That is never going to happen not at least in the next decade.

This indeed was a interesting year for the Bitcoin overall, never seen such a rally and suddenly it just made it to the sky, China did try to play spoilsport, but Japan like the samurai saved it, I think the future is already discounted in the price, the next hike is when segwit2x is implemented which I feel we shall see it happening very soon, I shall support it if it has replay protection, I feel segwit2x will set the price to 10 - 12k easily.

Surely excitement never left us especially every each fork that happens, we can see that old plots are emerging but we hodlers already new what will happen in the end of the bout,we can see it clearly miles away. During these trying times patience, fear, and perseverance are tested, the resilience of bitcoin is what keeps us breathing and that is the reason why we are still here in this forum and reading news and new trends regarding bitcoin. At the end of the day those who HOLD their coins will be the winners.