2018 will be a great year for bitcoin.Now 1 btc equal 18500 usd and i think it will easily cross 35000 usd in the middle of 2018.And in 2018 many country who were not accepting bitcoin they will start to accept bitcoin.
The year 2017 is the best year for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin grows in this year. Many countries and business are accepting Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin breaks all the previous records. As we see the history of Bitcoin, anybody can easily predict that the year 2018 would be the best year for Bitcoin. The investors are waiting for new-year. Before the New Year starts the Christmas will happen. The Bitcoin’s price may be hit to the peak at this event.
Lets not focus only at the price per bitcoin, year was good in that sence and in spreading the word about bitcoin and crypto currency in general but don't forget hard forks. LN is not yet implemented (it is being tested on test net, big thumbs up) but I am looking forward for it to be activated next year so that at least we could give an answer to the scaling problem which is around bitcoin atm and in my opinion should be taken care of ASAP. We want people to see it as future currency, not that it is slower than banking system. Price is relevant, it will/should go up if we take care of core things.
Just beware of some ICO's here some of them are just fake, they will eventually hack your account and you'll end up losing rather than earning money.
ICOs are topic for themselfs, they are on ethereum not on bitcoin. Your post is not relevant to the topic of this discussion. But I agree there are some that are fake, thats why before investing and or even playing with ICOs make sure to investigate into the project and make sure that you trust the devs. Not all of us have time to read through the code even if it is open source.