I believe bitcoin will climbbut it will be at a much slower rate than last year and a few months before the rise starts.
Well, who knows if this is going to be the case? It is still very early to be assuming on that one as time will basically tell. We may consolidate for a while which is normal after a trend, but I am guessing middle of this month, trend may change. I may be wrong which is the reason I said 'MAY', before anyone starts quoting me. One thing I am very sure of is that nothing goes down or up without reversing one day as long as it is not dead.
I am optimistic of Bitcoin in 2018. The lighting network is going to solve fees and processing time problem. With low fees and fast transaction time, Bitcoin is going to be easily adopted in real life, one example is stores.
Asides the lightening network, it seems the community is gradually switching to segwit and they are beginning to see the good side of it for faster transactions. With the LN in play, things may change but based on some readings, I really do hope this ends up resolving the scaling issue at hand really. We honestly need something to build up buy momentum right now and I am honestly not seeing any yet.