And it will remain so for a long time.
No government, no parties can effectively ban it and put their hand on it. They would have to ban internet first. Not likely.
That would be the end of free world we know.

Bitcoin address 3Cbq7aT1tY8kMxWLbitaG7yT6bPbKChq64 purchased $344 million worth at an average of $8,400 from 2/09/18 through 02/12/18 - then, doubled down adding nearly 41,000 coins for a new total of 96,000 coins worth around $900,000,000 at today’s price ($9,400)

https://blockchain.info/address/3Cbq7aT1tY8kMxWLbitaG7yT6bPbKChq64

Wow. Wondering who is that guy 

Then I will cash out and buy dream house. It would be not affordable to sell it now.
When do you think bitcoin will reach 1 million dollars?
I hope it will happen in 10 years time.

https://blockchain.info/address/1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF

and he did not withdraw his bitcoins since 2011, did he lose his private key?

Just look at the volume on GDAX exchange, more than one million, very unusual. And big volume orders!

Are you excited? 

https://litecoinca.sh/
https://twitter.com/LitecoinFork

Let's make this clear.
If you own bitcoin address and spend them within one year you will be fine. You are using bitcoins! That's what Satoshi Nakamoto wanted, to use it.
But if your address show no movement within 3 years, blockchain should gradually decrease it to incenivise you to spend them.
It's like land tax if you buy land and don't build anything on it for a long time which is causing land prices to bubble. Hoarders are not welcome.  
Or those bitcoins should go back to community into the pool.
I hope amendmens in bitcoin blockchain are made soon to tick this issue which will bring bitcoin world community closer to original Satoshi Nakamoto idea for bitcoin as everyday currency, not for speculation and hoarders.

December was very good but in January you lost your faith.
Give us some faith or it won't reach $20k.
Keep it going up people.  Show some confidence.

[support for smart contracts, the Lightning Network, zero-knowledge proofs, and bigger blocks]

Bitcoin Cash has been a major success so far, and Bitcoin Gold isn’t doing too badly either. Whether or not Super Bitcoin can achieve similar results remains to be determined. However, with support from exchanges right off the bat, this altcoin will see some initial success over the next few days.

Super Bitcoin went live a few days ago when the Bitcoin network discovered block 498,888, allowing exchanges to begin issuing this currency to holders of Bitcoin. OKEx, Huobi Pro, Coinut, CEX.com and a few others have all (allegedly) pledged support for this hard fork, although it remains to be seen if they will enable trading before the year is over.

On the mining front, it seems Super Bitcoin has two major mining pools helping out. Both BTCC Pool and F2Pool have set up servers for mining Super Bitcoin, which is rather interesting. All of this is according to a Medium post dated a few days ago, yet F2Pool’s main page doesn’t list SBTC as one of its mineable currencies. It will be interesting to see how many people decide to mine Super Bitcoin.

On the technical side, it seems the total supply will be 21,210,000 SBTC. This is slightly more than Bitcoin’s 21 million coins. All of the “excess” coins were pre-mined and held by the Super Bitcoin Foundation. The plan is to use these funds to encourage early developers, ensure the foundation continues to operate, and grow the ecosystem over time.

Other features of Super Bitcoin include support for smart contracts, the Lightning Network, zero-knowledge proofs, and bigger blocks. More specifically, the block size can be expanded to 8MB at its highest, although this number may still increase depending on how many transactions are processed on the network. It is quite interesting to see this project focus on so many different things, all of which are mainly borrowed from other projects.