Maybe before New Year holidays HODLers will decide to withdraw some tokens in fiat and buy presents for families ... it's too high and too hot. Even $ 10 k was too much, but $ 12k, wtf?
Maybe. But will this amount be enough to influence the price? Not likely if you consider that most of the gifts will probably not exceed value of several hundreds of dollars with some exceptions on both sides of price range. As for the price, i have no idea what is happening nor how it will behave in the near future. I dare not giving predictions since it's way off. Maybe this mode which is on in 2017 is the new normal for bitcoin?