It's so distant future. Cryptocurrency world is developing so fast who knows what will happen, if bitcoin survives. But if very large adoption happens worldwide and if bitcoin becomes fully accepted and regulated in financial sphere maybe by this time it will become dominant and equal to fiat and large number of people in the world will use it.

If the price was stable but low probably not so many people would be interested, but with higher value probably yes. But I think that bitcoin volatility is one of the factors that attracts users and keeps them interested. In many ways people consider bitcoin as investment, like shares or gold, so price volatility it's regular part of it along with the certain risk.

Probably the solution would be to store the coins in the multiple different wallets. The worst decision would be to keep bitcoins just in one place. And not to use online wallets.
But I guess I will never have such big amount of bitcoins, although I want to, so I will be not having such problems. 

And how do you know this exactly? Do you have crystal ball or something? Seriously, I can understand some general speculations or predictions but knowing exactly the month and the price is too much. And without any explanation or data that led to this conclusion. What is the purpose of this?

Thank you all, you have confirmed to me that so called doubling sites are scam and should be avoided. If this was true then everyone would be earning bitcoins this way and become rich in no time. And I agree, there is no such thing as free lunch or free money. For both you have to work hard.

I see so many services offering to double, triple and multiple in all possible amounts the coins you put to them. This doesn't sound very convincing to me but some of them are offering the list of blockchain transactions as a proof that coins were credited. Is this pure scam like I think or is there a possibility to realy make some coins? Would like to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Who would say that already 8 years has passed. I wish I entered the bitcoin world earlier but hope that bitcoin will continue to last for many years from now on. And what a great way to celebrate the birthday with such a great price.that seems keep rising even more in the near future.

Bad period for short position. I suppose that he thought the price will fall because it's going up for a long time now but there are no actual signs for this so he made the wrong decision. This was more hazard them rational decision and that costs him but he learned something for the future.

I don't like the decrease of payment rates either. We all hoped the with bitcoin going up we will also earn more. But what can we do, hope there will be no further decrease.

I use two wallets blockchain and mycelium. I don't have much coins but I don't like to keep them just at one place. I'm happy with this wallets features and so far had no problems. But if I had large amount of bitcoins I wouldn't keep them in online wallets I think they are the least secure.

Wow, that is realy great news! Hope we will continue this direction throughout the whole year. To be honest I thought 1000$ would come later in the January so this is a nice surprise. Happy New Year to us all!  

Of course that some occasional dumps are normal and necessary but I hope they will not be too big and that the price will remain somwhere between 800 and 900 with tendencija to go up without big drops. Hope the 2017 will be the best so far for bitcoins users.

Some governments are trying to regulate the bitcoin and tax is part of these regulations. But I think it most cases they don't put the taxes on bitcoin itself but on trading with it and other business related to bitcoin. So if you are trader on localbitcoins you have to pay taxes and if you are just holding them.in your wallet you don't.

Well, I gave up this loan so I will lock the thread. Will manage the other way.
Thank you all for advice and offers, I will have that in mind for the next time.

Yes we can, we can encourage them. We can explain them what are the benefits, like those related to taxes or that they will maybe easier find bitcoin investors then fiat investors or that with using bitcoins they could be more competitive. There are risks too, ofw course, but it's worth trying.

Aren't we all interested to trade bitcoin for a living? But this is not that easy and it's not easy to earn enough for decent living. Unless you have some other source of income. Many people are just telling fary tales but in real life they are not making money. If that would be so easy then everyone would do it.

I wish I bought more bitcoins.much earlier when the price was low. I could earn very decent sum if I waited long enough. But at the end I'm not very patient person so maybe I couldn't wait to sell them. Now it's also not to late to buy some coins but they are very expensive and now I can't afford it.

The invest regret about spending money this year was buying a mobile phone that I didn't realy need and that it turned out in the end that it wasn't so good as I thought. It would be much better that I bought some bitcoins instead. But the man learns on mistakes, that is the price.

For bitcoin in 2017 I wish more adoption, more promotion in media, more quality infrastructure and more equality with fiat money, less connections to illegal stuff. Personaly I wish I would collect as much bitcoin as I can and that the price will continue to rise

At the moment there is no bitcoin or another cryptocurrency based bank. Many people don't support this idea because they think existing of bitcoins bank would ruin it but in general I don't think this is such a bad idea because more financial bitcoin related services would be available to the users.