What took you by suprise, in terms of crypto, this year?

[Games.Bitcoin]

For me, the price rise on sooooo many alt coins!!!!!!!

[Fleshslasher]

Yes this year a lot of the altcoins rised up very high. Like Litecoin went from $100 to $300 and it keeps on increasing. That was one of the coin that has surprised me, because it went up quickly.

Ethereum is this year also very good. This means that we need to hold up coins instead selling them too quickly for a low price.

[Games.Bitcoin]

Almost all alt coins went up! I believe they're gonna keep climbing!


EDIT: Literally saw BCH's price after tying this... $4k

[Skieleton]

The BTC price at the end of the year is an absolute record and on August 16, the BTC dropped to the price of 1,600 $ / 1pcs. I regret that I did not buy. I was hoping it would go down ...

[JL421]

For me, the price rise on sooooo many alt coins!!!!!!!

The popularity of bitcoin took me by surprise, and the price too of course. It surpassed so many price margins even though I expected a peak point at around 5k $. Alts too got it's break, what's most important is bitcoin creating a breakthrough towards online trading.

[LTU_btc]

Year still didn't ended, maybe it's a bit too early to summarize things?
Many amazing things happened this and I can't choose which one was most surprising, so I will mention 3 things:
First - incredible price increase of all coins. Ten, hundred times bigger than it was in start of 2017 - it's something mind blowing and I think even biggest optimists hardly expected it.
Bitcoin forks - after successful release of BCH, so many new forks was made. Let's attract attention by using Bitcoin name to call a shitcoin.
ICO's crazy increase number of ICO's, compared with 2016. New trend to attract crazy amounts of money. Even scam projects without real products and usage attracting millions of dollars. It's interesting how everything will continue to develop in 2018.

[Games.Bitcoin]

The crash that happened a week ago took me by surprise for sure...

[ale_berra]

Hello! It seems to me that everyone in the outgoing year was surprised by the events connected with the BTC. This is a crazy growth rate, and the panic that was deliberately created to bring down the rate of the main crypto currency and buy it at a lower price. Is it still going to be in the New Year!

[kevoh]

Legacy king Bitcoin took me by surprise.  The whole drama was quite an experience for me.

First the was the bullish run of Bitcoin that almost seemed  unstoppable, then came the first hard fork where people made a lot of cash from the Bitcoin split, followed by not so exciting hardfork splits.

Then the whole drama ended with the weak side of Bitcoin finally being exposed causing a backlog in unconfirmed transactions.

[Nellayar]

For me, the price rise on sooooo many alt coins!!!!!!!

When it comes in crypto, I surprised when the hashgraph trying to replace blockchain technology. I read what the purposed of this project and it seems that it is more reliable than blockchain, it is more fair, speed and secured. Hashgraph is consensus mathematical algorithm. The proponents challenging blockchain and trying to dethrone it.

[Givebirth]

For me, the price rise on sooooo many alt coins!!!!!!!

Me too sir. I can't even imagine that the price of bitcoin will hit on 16000 usd. It was so amazing that this coin is super in demand in the market. But the sad thing is i have no saving or bitcoin when the price hit that.

[ARround Team]

Rising up the prices of Bitcoin and a lot of altcoins. Cryptomarket is growing a lot!

[player514]

For me, the price rise on sooooo many alt coins!!!!!!!

This year was crazy in terms of the price rise. Who would have thought that bitcoin, litecoin, and eth would put on so much money? There were many people being optimistic but they had few facts to back themselves up at the beginning of the year. If you told me that bitcoin was going to be at around 15k at the end of this year, I would have thought you were crazy.

Along with that, we've seen some insane volatility. I genuinely believed that Bitcoin could be over with the China FUD, even though I held on to some of what I owned (which ended up making me a lot of money now). I've learned a lot about investors and the crypto market this year.

[icanscript]

For me, the battle between bitcoin and bitcoin cash was a surprise.
The next fork, with the support of financial and media resources, was able to win quite a large part of the crypto market.

[rphk]

yes . alt coins price rapidly , like ethereum, ripple , but best thing bitcoin price raised to record break level , this something good news for crypto currencies. I believe future is good for the crypto currencies , just two years back bitcoin was around $3000 to $4000 , now it is gone up to $14000. crypto currencies gaining more popularity and more  people are now  interested on  crypto currencies . i believe there is good future for Crypto currencies.

[Slow death]

Yes this year a lot of the altcoins rised up very high. Like Litecoin went from $100 to $300 and it keeps on increasing. That was one of the coin that has surprised me, because it went up quickly.

Ethereum is this year also very good. This means that we need to hold up coins instead selling them too quickly for a low price.

all the altcoins increase because the bitcoin price has increase. litecoin was at 0.018btc and that did not change, this price of $300 is because bitcoin is high. if bitcoin falls to $3000 then all altcoins will fall... I always consider an altcoin increase against bitcoin and not against fiat. Maybe I'm wrong.


The cancellation of segwit2x was the biggest surprise for me, I never imagined that segwit2x would be canceled, since they were so determined to follow with hard forks... the cancellation of segwit2x is a BIG victory for the whole bitcoin community

[Direwolve735]

This year was successful for crypto world. Like everyone, I was really surprised by BTC price. And of course it wasn't expected for me that Bitcoin would be separated.  Also I was happy about a huge amount of new ICOs. Some of them seems to me very perspective, like stamps, confound and XCH. I hope this projects will succeed.

[BingoDog]

The end of the year was surprise for me because of so fast bitcoin price growth. Also the number of bitcoin users that have rised enormuosly as well as the whole crypto market.
I wasn't expected so many forks either and that so many people would be mislead by bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold and that they don't realise those coins are fake.
I beleive the next year brings us more surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant.

[Bittoshi]

I think most people was surprised by the massive rise of almost all cryptoos thuis year.

[nareshrohra]

For me, the surprise was altcoins market cap reaching $100 billion+. Bitcoin's rise from $5,000 to $20,000 in couple of months. Altcoin market price rising to $500 billion+. ETH stagnating at $250-300 range while bitcoin was rising.

There were few other small surprises but these were big ones.